Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-08 | Page 4 | Experts after Alfalfa Weevil

EXPERTS AFTER ALFALFA WEEVIL This is the time of the year when tho alfalfa weovll takes to wing and hikes to other climes for the express purpose of propagation. For that reason the work of fighting tho pest Is more difficult. The force of government gov-ernment weevil exports is being aligned al-igned to wag a fiercer fight, A. H. KIrkland soon will return from "Wash-Ington "Wash-Ington city. Harry Smith has arrived arriv-ed from Wyoming to take charge of the Murray laboratory, whore tho Wevil P?ra,s,te ,6 eing incubatod. G. N. AInslee Is home from Arizona where he has 8pent sovoral weeks' teach ng farmers the art of polsonlnr grasshoppers, and E. G. Titus, state entomology has returned from a yoara special work In Harvard unl-yersity unl-yersity and will do field work through the summer. In addition to the force of government govern-ment experts, a number of boys and girls win bo employed to aid In the field work. The weevils now are seen hish up In the a'r negotiating pass-age pass-age ovor tho mountain ranges. Thev are seoklng new fields In which to de"- posit eggs. The work of tho experts mt as fa." as posslblo Is to watch the E, course of travel taken by the pest SJ and then follow this up with a well- E directed campaign of destruction be- If fore the eggs hatch and the weevil T spreads. J