Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-20 | Page 4 | Controlling the Alfalfa Weevil

oo CONTROLLING THE ALFALFA WEEVIL. After a careful study of the alfalfa weevil, the deportment of agriculture has made a statement of activities during last year. Valuable results, it is said, have been obtained from pasturing by hogs during the weevil's egg-laying season, and practical meth ods have also been found of poisoning poison-ing the larvae in the field. A slngie economical spraying in the early spring will also protect the first and second crops. After the first crop has been removed, however, the most efficient tool that can be used has been found to be an ordinary spiKe-toothed spiKe-toothed harrow with the teeth laid flat and several In vers of open-wire fencing stretched benerth Parasites have also been .n'roduced from Europe, Eu-rope, the original home of the weevil and they are expected to produce good results. Thus lar this weevil has not spread greatly. A native weevil known as compsus auriccphalus has been found in Oklahoma. Okla-homa. This pest does seme damage I to alfalfa and also to growing wheat. I Its life history is now being carefully care-fully studied.