Show A A. FLY HAS COME COMETO E ETO TO DESTROY THE GRASSHOPPER GRAS Insect Dep Deposits sits Germ Which Eats Out Bowels of Hopper Hopper Drag Drag Does Good food Work Recipe For Poison Utah Utah County Commissioners Commissioner's Pay Bounty of 75 Cents Per Hundred Pounds Grasshoppers which for some sometime I time have been doing much damage to crops in various parts of the I Uintah basin may yet be quickly exterminated exterminated exterminated ex ex- ex- ex terminated without the aid of any poison or any contrivance for killIng killing killing kill kill- ing them Down in the Independence country country country coun coun- try where they are very thick a fly has recently appeared which seems leem to be killing them by the thousand This fly which resembles a a. deer fly deposits upon uvon the back of ot the grasshopper grasshopper grasshopper grass- grass hopper a germ which Immediately Immediate immediate- ly begins to do its deadly work This germ eats into the body of ot the hopper cutting out the bowels Last year in the Grand Valley in Colorado the fly made its appearance where the grasshoppers were devouring the crops Within three weeks there was not a live hopper in all that valley If the fly should fail tall to reach all aU sections of the Uintah basin there are other grasshopper destroyers South of My Myton ton W W. T. T Leatham has been using a drag with which he has killed thousands Mr Leatham made I this drag in a very short time quite inexpensively He made a aflame flame two two feet feet high and sixteen feet long o out t of ot timber He nailed a canvas bag funnel shape on the back of at the frame The drag is pulled pulled pulled pull pull- ed b by two horses One night after the hoppers had gone to roost Leatham Leatham Lea Lea- tham killed several bl bushels If It it is not convenient to make a drag or if the fly fails tails to put in his appearance there are numerous reci reel recipes recipes pes for poison polson The most effective method now is to poison polson with poisoned poisoned poisoned poi poi- bran made AS follows 20 pounds bran 1 pound arsenic or one pound paris green 2 quarts syrup 3 oranges or lemons and 3 3 gallons gallons gallons gal gal- lons of water Mix bran and poison polson together thoroughly while dry Donot Donot Do Donot not breathe the poison polson Mix syrup oranges and water thoroughly Then sprinkle the solution over bran until until un un- un- un til poison polson sticks to it Have moist but not wet This should be sown broadcast on strips of or alfalfa left at cutting and along ditch banks covered with al al- al falfa falta When the latter Is cut leave strips about 6 to S 8 feet wide every 12 to 15 rods The hoppers will gather on these strips Then scatter scatter scatter scat scat- ter the poisoned bran broadcast along these strips It must be done at night or at daylight in the morning The hay should be cut right awa away and bran set Bet as each day the task becomes becomes harder This method will not not endanger live stock stock Other pars of the state are aro infested In Infested in- in tested with the hoppers The Utah county commissioners placed d a bounty bounty bounty boun boun- ty of three-fourths three of ot a cent per pou pound d on all grasshoppers caught within the borders of the county FroID From from rem the dryer dry dry- err er er districts Including Mosida Alpine Alpine Alpine Al Al- pine bench and the hay districts the th grasshoppers have become so numerous nu that the farmers are losing much of at their hay crop The bounty boun bonn ty it is believed will result in the destruction of ot hundreds of at bushels of the pest The fIrst grasshopper p pestilence in years developed at Mosida last season Other sections also suffered suffered suf suf- but not o 0 severely I |