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Show PROCESS Off IGHT1NG WEEViLJ SLOW ONI A. H. Klrkland of the bureau ef ao tore to-re ologr. In Charge of the local fight being be-ing waged aaalnst the alfalfa weevil, ears that the government employeee In thle city are still working diligently to And a means for the extermination and pre. ventlon of the weevil. The work le stilt largely In the experimental experi-mental etage. and those In charge prefer not to make promleea or predict looa as to what reeulte will follow their erlorta, preferring pre-ferring to let the mult speak tor them-sslvaa them-sslvaa when th time comee. Mr. Klrkland la perfecting an oil burner, burn-er, with which It la Intended to burn the alfalfa atubbla after tha flrat crop haa been cut Mr. Klrkland haa been auo-cessful auo-cessful In lis Ml rut other destructive Insects In-sects bv tha burnlns methods In the east, and thounh the condltlona locally demand different apparatua. the method will be xlvsn a tryout after the da telle of the burner have been ftaurad out. It will be another year. Mr. Klrkinid save, before reoulte bextn to ahow. T-te workers hope to lie ahie to eatablleh er three weevil parasite colonies In V r alfalfa flelda durlna the euminer. |