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Show COOPERATIVE RAT CAMPAIGN IS UNDER WAY COOPERATIVE During the next two weeks a survey on rat infestation will be ; made by the Future Farmers of the Springville high school, under the leadership of Cornell Menden-hall. Menden-hall. according to an announcement of Earl Hutehings, district agricultural agricul-tural inspector. This survey is being made in cooperation with the U. S. department of agriculture, bureau bu-reau of biological survey, district agricultural inspectors and county agents. The survey has been requested : by the city council in order to ascertain the percentage of infesLu? tion as a whole as compared with last year's campaign. People of the city are asked to cooperate to the fullest extent with the students who will be identified with cards. If the cards disti ibut-ed ibut-ed by the I- uture Farmer boys show a need of follow-up work in Springville, the council will provide means of distributing bait through these agricultural agencies, it is stated. Governmental and agricultural agencies throughout the state are said to be 1 alert to problems of rodent control, and they are working work-ing with civic organi.ut ions to bring about ex I .rminalio.i of ruts ., hicli are causing widespread damage. dam-age. People who have been entirely entire-ly free from this pest may awaken to find that with the coming of cold weather the-l at is making inroads in-roads in poultry houses, cellars, graneries and dwellings. With such leadership as that offered of-fered by experts in eradication of this destructive pest, citizens-should citizens-should give the work their heartiest hearti-est cooperation,, in the opinion of Lhose interested in freeing the city of such a nuisance. |