Show T now Is the time to start planning a campaign against the alfalfa wee vil last season considerable hay could have been saved by dusting or spraying the alfalfa and thus killing the larvae of the weevil dusting Is peili perhaps aps the cheapest and most eco comical way of destroying the al falta falfa weevil the dusting machines can be bought tor for approximately the dust will cost about alc per acie eight to ten acres can be dusted each hour anis price would not be prohibit tive if farmers would cooperate and buy a machine the machines are serviceable for a good many years the crops saved over a few years would pay the price odthe machine and dusting a good many times un leess something Is done of this sort there is no other way 0 controlling the alfalfa weevil early cutting will hold t e weevil down if every one in a given locality is willing to cut his hay at the same time this early cutting will usually destroy many eggs that are still unhatched CUT al in a few communities cut worms are doing considerable damage to grain alfalfa and garden crops the worms are t ta e larvae of a number of night flying moths cut worms work at night usually coming to the surface of the soil to teed feed on the new tender growth they may be con trolled by either of two methods de pending upon the crop they are working on poison bran bait may be spread of an evening along the garden fur rows or in grain pate raes in altal ta fa fields the most economical way will be to make a barbed drag out of the drig harrow and go over tl ti e fields at night particularly at about ten or eleven 0 clock or later of course this means night work but it cannot be done in the day time as the worms burrow into the soil to a depth of two or three inches they are easily killed when on the surface of the ground |