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Show QUARANTINE 01 lEpilSED; Utah Shipping Profits by Removal of Alfalfa j Weevil Measure. j t jf in u-h j m port a nee to "Utah hi p-piuo; p-piuo; interests, in the opinion of n:cm-hern n:cm-hern of the state crops and pe.ts cotu-inisston, cotu-inisston, is 1 he an noun cement from Idaho that the Gem state lias lifted the quarantine, measures aaint the alfalfa weevil in L'lah and other west li u states. The aeiiou in Idaho followed repreben I atiuiis made on the subject by the Utah commission. The lifting of the- quarantine allows Utah shippers to 'send merchandise requiring re-quiring packing materials to Idaho as freely as between cuiuiticd within the state of Utah, so far as the alfalfa weevil wee-vil is concerned. Qoai a u t hjc regulations regula-tions arc lifted, llaroid U. tlaan, sef,-relaiy sef,-relaiy of the Utah com mission, .-aid, from uu enormous amount of br.-fiiiesa in I his stale. Distribution of materials from Utah has always bi.!U a source of trouble since Idaho placed the quarantine iu ei-lecl.lsoon ei-lecl.lsoon alter the a p :u ra nee of the alfatia wees il in Utah, tiinee that date the only, paekui materials allowed have been eee!sior, cut paper, burlap, sha vinjs and the liHe. .Snue last suui-mer suui-mer s-dl yrass, under certain restrictions restric-tions has been permitted. Hundreds of dollars annually, it is asserted, will be saved in the cost of inspection alone, dhipj rs of fruits and vegetables, particularly, have been required to have ea i lot and smaller shipments inspected and passed before crossing tine stale line to Idaho. This uill no longer be required. In pai-kino- alone, Mr. Ilafian reports, re-ports, Ihere will be a saving of about oue-half the cost in all shipments to Idaho where straw or similar materials are inn-mit led to replace the in ore expensive ex-pensive packing previously required. It is pointed out that shippers who packed materials in salt grass, and who have a sa It grass license, such as was required by the Idaho regulations and is still required by regulations of various va-rious other slates, will uot be benefited by this change in the regu la Lions, if they are lo continue their shipmenls to other stales. If they remain as licensed li-censed users of sail grass for packing they cannol use straw or other hays for packing without violating the regulations regula-tions under which they obtained l.hc li-c?usc li-c?usc to use salt grass. If a shipixn-wauls shipixn-wauls to continue using salt rnss under un-der such a license for shipments lo oilier states, he must continue lo us-e il to Idaho as well. If lie gives up his salt grass license a ship;-r to various slates of the west other than Idaho must use excelsior or some. of the oilier packing materials named. ''The release from thc quarantine," said Mr. Ilaqan, ''shew' the sane viewpoint view-point taken by the Idaho officials, particularly par-ticularly by Miles, t'annon, commissioner commission-er of agriculture, and by Y. II. Wicks, chief of the Idaho bureau of plant industry. in-dustry. ' ' |