| Show no weevil in utah seed tho the following article appeared in a recent issue of a los angeles newspaper J H bailey baller an alfalfa seed dealer of salt lake city utah was in frebus yesterday and made an effort to convince thorn them that there were no weevil in utah alfalfa seed bailey that thero had been placed a it ban on atah uta 1 h seed because of the alleged presence of weevil and ho he said that several authorities 11 had threatened to confiscate seed imported from utah in corroboration corrol oration of his assertion that there were no weevil in utah alfalfa bailey had bad a sack of alfalfa seed in his pocket with no weevil among the seed bailey had hada a I 1 letter etter from F FN X webster in chargo charge of cereal and forage insect inspection of the federal government ern ment which testified that utah alfalfa seed vas ras no more infected with weevil than that of california or any other western state webster states that according to the investigations of the bureau of entomology tom depart department meat of agriculture the weevil does not develop in the alfalfa seed and is not at all likely to bo be distributed th therein orein there would be no more danger of tho the al balfa weevil from utah in alfalfa seed than there would bo be in receiving packages of almost any commodity which packages were sufficiently open to allow the insect to crawl into crevices or openings and hide itself away |
