Show Say Cooperation Is Good In n Hopper Fight At Ma Manti Grasshoppers are a very grave menace to many Manti 1 farms this year and the farmers of the area are awakening to the fact and going to work on the pests In past years there have been a few of the farmers who have ignored the grasshopper threat but the farmers fighting the grasshopper threat this year say that the cooperation is good In spreading bran to kill the insects the farmers are talking in terms of hundreds of bags and not in just bags this year They have reported using practically practically practically every available kind of equipment feed and poison in inthe inthe inthe the fight Ben Kjar says they have spent much time in the bottom lands going over the Kjar farm anc and the other farms in the area and he says the farmers now no m most o 0 s t threatened by grasshoppers pers are getting offers of help from those out of the grasshopper per area Ben says they burned the hoppers for three days but that this is too slow He tells that he went over a piece of land this week that was literally crawling with the pests Five acres of grass he said was so completely covered by hoppers that the grass wasn't even vis vis- vis- vis ible He did say however that by spreading bran furnished by bythe bythe bythe the county they have reached an estimated 90 00 per cent kill A spray was used on the Calvin Calvin Calvin Cal Cal- vin Keller farm it is reported bUt but this did not produce such sucha a great kill as the bran After the spraying had been done it was estimated that 40 per cent to 50 per cent of the grasshoppers pers in the sprayed area were killed The fhe time to kill the pests is when they are just hatching or orin orin orin in their very young stages If the grasshoppers get a good start th the farmers say it is practically impossible to stop them With this in mind the themen themen themen men owning land in the bottoms bottoms bottoms bot bot- toms and swamp are spending a lot of time these days trying to get the hoppers under control control control con con- now while most are still stil I young and while some of them are arc still hatching A still more serious threat Is reported from up around Green where some fields are arc infested with Mormon crickets These grow much faster than grasshoppers and reach a ri much larger size Also they are ca capable capable capable ca- ca pable of and do a lot more traveling They are more likely to go from one green spot to another topping a crop and leaving according to the information information information mation we have whereas grasshoppers grasshoppers grasshoppers grass grass- hoppers usually settle down and stay in one spot until they finish finish finish fin fin- ish off the entire growth o |