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Show Seagulls Save Wheat Crop by Devouring Grasshoppers Special to The Tribune. BRIGHAM CITY, July 16. Reports Re-ports have been received in Brigham City during the past few weeks of the splendid yield of wheat out at Promontory Promon-tory when nearly all sections of the country adjacent thereto have suffered suf-fered from the long dry period to the extent that wheat crops were all but lost. In some sections the crop has been plowed under and the land made ready for fall planting. An incident of considerable impor-- impor-- tnnce which occurred at a time when the farmers feared losing their crops by the grasshoppers has been conveyed to this city. It is said that the hoppers had become so numerous numer-ous that they were threatening everything ev-erything In sight. One day hundreds of seagulls were noticed in the fields, eating the pests, and they have continued to visit that part of the county until now there are scarcely any hoppers. This incident recalls that of 1847 here in Brighajn City, when these same pests visited the early pioneers here and devoured their -.sparsely planted wheat and other crops. The seagulls came by the thousands and ate the hoppers until they were exterminated ex-terminated from the land. |