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Show uu WEEVIL HAS A STRONG HOLD Farmors of Weber county are complaining com-plaining that the weevil Is playing havoc with the alfalfa crop, tho dam-ago dam-ago being heavy to tho first cutting of hay. The crop should have been ready for cutting about Juno 15, but because of the operations of the weevil It had not matured at that time and there were but few fields that wore beginning begin-ning to bloom. The result has been that the harvest has just now begun and the crop Is hardly fit to cut, even at this late date. The hay Is not well in bloom and tho leaves are stripped from tho upper part of the plant In most of tho fields, which means that the crop will be of littlo value. This morning Ex-Councilman Geo. Wilson stated that the present cutting will be not much better1 than the third' cutting usually and that uot much more than two-thirds of a crop will be harvested. Just what the weevil will do with the remaining cuttings cannot be said, but It is the opinion of the farmers that the pest will work on the second sec-ond crop with equally destructive force. oo |