| Show WEEVIL APPEARS OVER ov EX VIA IN much damage already to growing effig crops near mt pleasant MT NIT PLEASANT april 15 sanpete county lucern hilda some ot of them at least are infected hith alth the pest known as the alfalfa weevil which has wrought such havoc on hay farms in different parts of the state for a couple of scars past reports 4 reach here this week tron fron the fields belo beloy v town and from the bench above that the pe pep I 1 aa as made its appe appearance trance at be both th places in somo ome of the fields attempts have been made by irrigating 4 etc to eradicate the pest or to at least cheek it temporarily pora rily but the efforts of those who he made the at attempts tempts were fruitless aa as the fields were swarming with the ins let ct after the treatment just aa as they had been before the insect made its appearance in the fields below town last fall and affected the maturing crops slightly then thia this spring 4 it la is in evidence in different parts of the fields that it will do to 4 damage to the extent of thousands of dollars during the aar la Is 4 almost a certainty 4 4 there la is of course a bare possibility that the insect that has 4 4 appeared here 1 Is not the destructive weevil as no one so fir 4 4 talked to in reg begird ard to it has positive kraw knowledge ledge of the apeci appear 4 4 ance of the bug itself but there Is not much doubt in the minds 4 4 of those who have seen the one in the local fields about its be 4 4 ing tho the genuine article 4 4 prof 1 awls A merrill of the logan agricultural college in 4 4 a ering telephone inquiries describes the weevil as a bug lesem 4 4 bling the ladybug in form it Is however smaller darker 4 and has a long stripe down the back and has a very hard shell 4 4 4 it Is breeding now 4 the pest reported in the bench fields Is said to be he a brownish 4 4 4 green worm oer over an inch long and found below the surface 4 these worms are in countless numbers and are doing untold 4 damage |
