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Show Lehi Boy Is Making Good Is Making a Mud) f Alfalfa llulps t'"i- the Agricultural College. L.irl Jones, a sou of Thuimis Jones, returned home this week from Mlllnid county, where he has been spending the past two mouths studying tho life nnd habits 0r tho iilfnlfn thrlps Tor tho state Agrlsulturul College. Mr. Jones was a student or tho college Inst j ear. This destiuctive little Insect, about unc-elghth ot 1111 inch lu length, creating such destruction In the neighborhood ot Hinckley, Hint tho nirnlfn seed yields have fallen to but live per cent of n crop, and absoluto failure is threatened. Mr. Jones has learned, by the use of u compound microscope, that tho Insect lays Ittt eggs In the tender tissues ot tho leaves and blossoms, and utteil multiplying sotcrnl times during tho season, will hibernate in the roots ot tho plant, it lives by tearing and micklug tho leaves and (lowers, causing tho latter to full beforo becoming polculzcd. The little nnlninl emi be round by slinking iv bunch or luceru blossoms lu your hand. 11 Is very active and under a compound microscope looks almost like a grasshopper. He hns gathered mid mounted a lot ot samples for use at tho college and will conlinuo tho study during the next month, which ho will spend at home. , He nlho sas that thu alfalfa weevil Is becoming rather numerous lu Millard Mil-lard county mid noxl year will cause tho farmers lots ot troub'c. |