Show WEEVIL IS MENACE THROUGHOUT WEST That the alfalfa weevil In Utah and other western states has spread until it is a menace to one of the West's Vests most important crops and that im immediate immediate immediate im- im mediate steps must be taken to contro control control con con- tro it is the substance nce of an official report sent out from Washington yes yes- During During- the twelve ars since the weevil was introduced into America it has been confined to the limits of the great basin of the west but It itha ha has 11 been found this year by the bureau of entomology at Malta McCammon Pocatello and Ida all aU well within the Snake river drainage system tem tern and at Duchesne Utah in the Colorado river system which like that of the Snake slopes to the Pacific Within thin the reat geat basin the weevil has hal spread as far south as Richfield into the alfalfa fields of central Utah The insect in spreading across the con con- divide department entomologists say is to be he regarded merely as passing a convenient landmark rather than thanks thanas as surmounting a barrier for experience experience ex ex- ex- ex peri ce has not shown that it spreads ads faster taRter alon along rivers than across mountain mountain moun moun- tam tain ranges Nevertheless it i is il i now many miles nearer to important alfalfa growing Vin o districts which have p hitherto felt safe safet from It its attack t |