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Show TRY ITALIAN CRASS. It i almoat July, but notwithstanding the lateness late-ness of th season we wish that some farmer whose alfalfa ia being destroyed by the weevil would run a disc plow ever an acre and sow it thick, so it will have fine stalks, in Italian rye grass. The agricultural department reports crops of eight ton per acre of fine hay from Italian grass, and aowed at this time of the year it should yield at least three tons, which would ' h more than farmers can hope to obtain from weevil scourged field. It might prove the easiest way to get rid of the weevil. The grass yields a tremendous crop the first year, when sowed early, and much more than average crop the second year. A change for two year might eradicate the weevil entirely, and then permit the farmers to return to alfalfa. Why not try an acre here and there f |