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Show oo USE PARASITES TO FIGHT MILL MOTHS Extreme heating of flour mills by steam radiation, which Utah and Idaho Ida-ho millers started to destroy Med!- terranean moths, will be dispensed with for a short time. Parasites will be introduced to fight the moths. ThU was decided yesterday by the state, dairy and food department, following receipt from Washington, D. C, of a letter suggesting use of parasites. Tin-letter Tin-letter was from F. H Chittenden, government gov-ernment expert of the department of entomology, in charge of truck crops and stored products investigation. The parasites to be used are known as Ichneumon flies. According to Mr. Chittenden, theso flies placed in a mill infested with the. destructive Mediterranean moth kill the moths t Ml and then, when all are killed, themselves them-selves die. having nothing more to , eat. The government expert says the radiation heat system has proved a success and is not injurious to mill apparatus. However, he recommends me pal jsi LL-t) as oeiier. Heber C. Smith, chief deputy dairy and food commissioner, said yesterday yester-day that a large number of these parasites par-asites will be introduced at once Wlllard Hansen, commissioner, and James H. Wallis, state food inspector of Idaho, held a conference last week in Salt Lake regarding the danger of these moths. An Inspection trip showed show-ed many of the mills infected. |