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Show the unrriH basis farmer July 15, 1928. Associated Beehive Seed Growers Of The Uintah Basin SI Grasshoppers Grasshoppers have become very numerous and are beginning to do a lot of damage on some farms now. In most of the affected fields they range from full grown hoppers to little fellows just hatched. Probably they are still hatching. If you did not have many last time you looked, you may have more now. Poisoning Grasshoppers shccessful way of controlling Probably the most grasshoppers is to poison them. Poisoning is, however, a good deal like fishing. Some days and some hours of the day axe better than other days or hours. Poison seems to be more effective in some places than in others. And some farmers axe more skillful at mixing anjd! spreading poison than others, just as some fisherman get more fish than others even though they fish the same streams. all-arou- nd Clean Bran Sodium Arsenite 0 pounds 12 oz., or Beet Molasses 2 Quarts Oil of Lemon 1-- Water 3 'Zy2 IT IS VEBY IMPORTANT that your bait be MIXED UGHLY. Put out your poison in the morning. It should be just nice to sow broadcast after setting over night. It should be sowed just before the hoppers start to move around. Bare spots and ditch banks are good places to put it It sometimes helps to run a little water down the ditches and if you can have your whole field damp the poison will stay fresh longer. : Your hoppers should be sick 3 pint it Catching Hoppers 2 Quarts 2 Gallons 1 1-- gallons 9 Gallons 3 ounces In case you cannot get some of these materials or you have ether materials on hand, we are fisting the following substitutes: Fox Bran half bran and half sawdust is sometimes used. For Sodium Arsenite one pound of White Arsenic or one pound of Paris Green or cue pound of Calcium Arsenate, just about equals one pint of Sodium Arsenite in hiTTfng strength. Sodium arsenite is liquid and more convenient to handle than the other posions which are drypewder. We believe that the most satisfactory wav of catching grasshoppers is with a hopperdozer and oiL The oil HTls. the hoppers that jump in and jump out again. We can show you how to make a hopperdozer more easily than we can tell you here. Most likely some of your neighbors have one that you can lock at The hop perdozer catches a lot of other insects as well as hoppers. Then too, you do not have to wait to see whether you are getting hoppers or , CLEAN BRAN, SODIUM ARSENITE in three-gallo- n drums. WHITE ARSENIC in hulk. Oil is just about Milting Mix your bait in the evening. If you use Sodium Arsenite stir it and the syrup and flavoring and the water together and then stir in the bran and mix until all the bran is wet, then let it set DscLtsas free from shorts and nice to mfr, in 80 pound bags. Honey. For Oil of Lemon three ounces of Banana equal to one ounce of oil of lemon. not We have on hand now: For Beet Molasses you can use sorgum. Karo Syrup or Boiled -- will For 80 lb. Mixture Ounce Go in about 24 hours and they probably take another day or so to die. 80 pounds 2-- THORO- away from your face. Amount to Use For 20 lb. mixture mixture of water syrup and flavoring. Be very careful not to inhale the fumtes of yeferr poison and wash your hands thoroughly after Try to keep it Poison bait consisting of the following materials in the quantities indicated usually give excellent results: Ingredients over night. If you use some of the powdered poison you will ueed to mix poison and bran together dry and then stir this into the BEET MOLASSES in barrels. You should bring containers for molasses arsenite. for sodium WE WILL HAVE residue oil from the refinery at Rangely as we can get it in. The first we got is the lot now gone now is in all sold, but well have more right along so that you coming will be able to get it just about as you need Peppsurd Rcczzvtlt it Compsmy Vcrr.zl |