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Show To Destroy Weevil Shipment of Parasites to Utah Expected Quit ; Soon. The Salt Lake City office of the bureau of entomology is expecting a shipment of foreign parasites to arrive fiom Fran e within a few days with which to experiment on the alfalfa al-falfa weevil. The bureau of entomology ento-mology is busying itself almost entirely en-tirely in making investigations into the habitj and nature of this pest with a view to eradicating it from the agricultural fields of Utah. The parasite inquestidn is a native of Southern Europe and is said to be a quick desUoyer of the weevil. In Southern Europe, where the parasite abounds, there are but few weevils. Nevertheless, it was discovered by government experts in France that the weevil has no more deadly enemy than , this bug. It is not known whether the parasite will thrive in a cold climate, though more is expected expect-ed from it in helping to rid the inter-mountain inter-mountain region of the weevil if it will. As soon as the parasite arrives experiments ex-periments will be started in the field under the direction of George I. Reeves, in charge of the government govern-ment office in this state. |