Show grasshopper legislation IN WYOMING A number of wyoming 6 newspapers are spreading propaganda in favor of the ensuing general assembly of the state enacting legislation for the destruction of grasshoppers why should the legislature enact class legislation of this nature if the farmers of wyoming want the gras grasshoppers s destroyed let them raise turkeys they are more profitable than sheep plenty of instances may be cited in wyoming where ranchmen ranchman ranch men and farmers have made good money this year by raising turkeys and fattening them on grasshoppers farmers are always asking for something we know whereof we speak because we served an apprenticeship on a farm rarely is a farmer suited it is either too cold or too hot too wet or too dry and the taxes are always too high the C has to hold institutes for his special benefit to teach him how to farm if his cattle are infested with ticks or his sheep have the foot rot the public has to pay for dipping them in some states the public has to cut down his noxious weeds and kill his whistles thistles es ds when en times are good he kicks about the wages he has to pay for hired help on top of everything else he wants the government to loan him money to buy farms and then loan hini him more money to stock the farms the farmer blames most ot of his troubles on the labor unions considering what the farmer has already secured in the way of class legislation b in in his disorganized state should he ever become thorough thoroughly lily union unionized the the rest of the people might just as well 9 get et off earth but we are digressing from the grasshopper legislate leg legis islat laa ion we dont want all our good trout bait killed besides poison ads indiscriminately distributed kills our sage chickens wy ming oil index |