Show PROFF GIVES SOME professor webb ot at tho the AgrI agrical cul tural college of etith at logan representing the united states department of agriculture met with about thirty farmers of Lake lakeview view vineyard and provo bench beach one day last week at lakeview Lake view for the purpose of giving them instructions in nth meth ads ot of destroying the alfalfa weevil which la Is infesting tho the lucerne lu cerite fields of the county north of provo professor webb and the farmers visited the fields whre the professor explained the propagation gation and habits of at the insect from the egg through the various stag etalea a 0 arvel vl opi oDi nent illustrating hie information by of tho the weevil he ila advised that the lucerne on all infested fields be cut now and that the field be then thoroughly disked and following the disking dragged with a heavy brush drag the TWO tre mert will cover the eggs with a dust mulch and smother them and next year leave the field free train weevil would otner other UILO be produced by thia this years eggs it if for any reason disking and dragging la Is not practicable floodine flooding and dragging was ed ad the eggs will then be i with mud and will not germinate the female of the weevil lays fr from om a hundred and fifty to two hundred eggs each season and only once in a season no eggs will be produced after thin this and tho the cutting and removing of hay will destroy destray he weevil bast l aaa th lag g stage nd the second and third props will th therefore not suffer the treatment recommended by professor webb which will be applied will tad to greatly reduce it not entirely destroy next years pr production a duct lon of weevil and the farmers feel they will hereafter be able to hold the peat pest in check |