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Show ALFALFA WORM i Piof. L. F. Merrill, County Farm Demonstrator, accompanied by H. R. Hagen of the Agricultural College, was in Salina yesterday looking into the alfalfa here. It is not, they say, the weevil, but the alfalfa looper and is this year present in unusual numbers. num-bers. They point a way to get rid of them for the second crop and to keep them off the beets. After first cutting cut-ting go over the ground with a spring tooth harrow and brush drag. Then glet alone for at least a day, after which, water the laud. If it continues contin-ues dry and hot a brush drag can be used to brush the worms off the new lihools. If it gets damp and wet the fungus disease alone will destroy Jiem, but has no effect when weather is dry and hot. If beet fields adjoin illalfa run a stream of water between be-tween the two. Keep it running and spray outer edges of whatever parts iffected with worms with the following follow-ing solution: Lead Arsenate, 10 pounds to one hundred gallons or water. This will kill the worm. It his is done there will be no worma icxt year. Salina Call. |