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Show o NEW VEGETABLE PEST IS SPREADING IN SOUTH Add another to the worries of the I ruck grower. The vegetable weevil, a new hardy, strong flying; insect which has a healthy appetite for a wide variety of common garden crops is spreading in the Southern States and is known : to occur in California, the United ; States Department of Agriculture reports. This weevil is a small, grayish-brown grayish-brown beetle, about a third of an inch long. It was first found in stone county, in Mississippi, in 1922. Since then it has spread to many counties in that state as well as to Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida, and in 1926 was discovered in the vicinity of San Jose. California. The pest is a hardy flyer, and this make it difficult to control its spread. Some of the plants which it attacks are turnip, cabbage, collard, carrot, mutard, spinach, beet chard, radish, potato, tomato, lettuce, onion, parsley, parsnip, chickweed, mallow, pigweed, dock, and milk thisle. Arsenical poisons will control the insect, but in such crops as lettuce the u.-,e of poison involves an element of danger. Poisoned bran bait as used 'for cutworms is partially effectivo , during May and June. |