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properly handled and are apparently free from weevils. Potatoes 

 are also required to be screened. Nursery stock is rendered safe 

 by fumigation. 



In addition to these police measures for delaying the spread of the 

 weevil, all residents within the infested district should be careful not 

 to carry alfalfa hay into free territory and thus aid its natural prog- 

 ress. Without the co-operation of the public, quarantine regulations 

 have little value. 



The first step in controlling this pe&t, which in spite of all pre- 

 cautions, may eventually appear in Montana, is to report its presence 

 speedily, as soon as it is discovered, to the county agricultural and 

 horticultural agents. There are other* small brown beetles and green 

 larvae which may be mistaken for the alfalfa weevil, but no chances' 

 should be taken with any such suspicious insect. 



