Show ARE ALFALFA WEEVILS I 1 I 1 salt lake and utah counties have really been benefited led by tho the visit of the alfalfa weevil end dr E G titus etymologist of tho tile utah agricultural college in that tho the advent of the bag bug had caused many old and unattended lucerne fields to bo be aloro up and diore care taken of 0 the fields gelds in general A field should bo be left to alfalfa no longer than four or five cara ears mr 0 0 quod of trenton utah is plowing lita hi lucerne stubbles at of ter three years and is getting ho be thinks the beet bs t results dr titus emphasizes strongly tho the hotd of plowing up the neld no longer than fi aho a years seeding and proper cultivation of iho the field every sea son for tho the pest peat breeds tight right on tho stem emot of thu tho plant Ag again ainold old piles of baylift hay left antho in tho field also weedy ditch banks are favorito favo tito hibernating places for tho the intact the real remedy for the weevil according to dr titus is better yetter farming he regards thy tho aport ing log of bevil eating bugs which is arousing much interest in utah as only an artificial method of eliminating tho the pest oyen even if it at all the only remedy that will bo be permanently effective ho he says is proper cultivation of alfalfa fields the spring tooth and brush drag mr mcge st ba ira liberal liberally lr up applied on the stubble immediately af after ter tho the first crop haa haz been teen re moved tho the samo same thing must bo lo done lone af after ter the second cutting the tile burden of dr talusa rry cry which ho he says ought to bo be heralded all over tho the stale state is barmore Far more waken wake up clean loan up do en with tho the weevil by bettor better farming logar republican bli au |