Show Carl Isaacson Submits Report To To combat the grasshopper pest in Boxelder county this year ne necessitated necessitated necessitated ne- ne the purchase of pounds of ot arsenic which was distrIbuted distributed distributed dis dis- to farmers in all parts of ot the county pest was practically practically annihilated This Information Information Information tion is contained in a report of Carl Isaacson agricultural inspector tor of ot that county to Heber Hebel T J Webb chief agricultural Inspector for the state for six months' months work Inspector Isaacson says that the sparrow season was about over when he started to work but he devoted some time to exterminating ing In Inthis this pest of ot the farmers farmers' with Avith the tho result that more than of the birds were slain Another pest to the extermination I tion of which he hO devoted some time was mice and he cleared ZOO acres I of ot the pest while in the tho work of ot exterminating ground squirrels he covered covered- covered 1004 acres ln the western part rt of ot tIre countY i In the matter of or weed p pests pests beI he be I reports that he caused miles I of county road to be cleansed of ot weeds ninety miles of ot railroad and miles mites of ot canal also 1200 acres of farm land was cleared of ot noxious noxious nox nox- ious Iou II weeds a as also more than thirty miles of town and city streets I I In addition to this with the aid of ot deputies lU cars of ot peaches I were inspected as were six cars of apples two cars of potatoes and andone andone andone one car of onions The average I cost of inspection was per car I Besides this Inspector Isaacson made mado miscellaneous inspection of various crops devoting days day dayto to this work held five meetings of of farmers and made a short talk at a each ch inspected j orchards BOO fields Incoming nursery stock condemned Inspected markets and trucks and wagons Eleven Eleen cars of ot fruit going to quarantined states and about I pieces in less than car lots |