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Danger of Clover-root Curculio. 



The United States Departnient of 

 Agriculture in the Weei<ly News Letter 

 under date of April 21st, has called the 

 attention of the fruit growers and 

 famers to the danger of clover-root 

 curculio. The pest has become more or 



less of a national menace as a destroyer 

 of the various legumes. It works in 

 the stems and fretiuently is unnoticed 

 and for this reason the damage has 

 been freiiuently attributed to other 

 causes. Recently it has been shown to 

 be a great obstacle to alfalfa growing. 



The Department states there is only 

 one practical suggestion at the present 

 [Iiat can be made for limiting the 

 <Kvaslalions of curculio, that is disk- 

 ing or harrowing the fields as soon 

 as the fii-st crop is harvested. This 

 process, it is stated, will destroy vast 



