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Show 'to exterminate It in-this county tt will eventually spread to other counties coun-ties in the Btatc and from this state to other states, until finally it will have gained a stronghold all over the country. The experience with the cotton cot-ton boll-weevil should bo a lesson to Utah farmers. From Texas this latter pest spread to other states and now tt is found in almost all the southern states. UTAH FARMERS LOSING ALFALFA CROP. The farmers of Salt Lake county are warned that their alfalfa crop is in danger of being destroyed by the leaf-weevil and Prof. E. G. Titus, entomologist en-tomologist of the "Agricultural college at IyOgan, advises that farmers cut their alfalfa crop immediately. It matters mat-ters not whether there be much to cut. what little is left after the ravages rav-ages of tho weevil should fall before the mowing machine and then tho ground should be thoroughly disked. In this way the young weevil may be killed. To negect cutting now may mean the loss of the second crop. . According to Prof. Titus the alfalfa leaf-weevil is an imported pest. It was brought here fjxmi Europe, in some manner not known, about five or six years ago and has been steadily thriving its new place of residence ever since. So far as known Salt Lake county is the only place in the United States where this pest exists. Unless a strong effort is made to check the ravages of the weevil and |