Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-21 | Page 12 | Pest Eradication Campaign is Active

I I 1 1 I I 1 I II I I I I I j i I I 1 Pest Eradication I Campaign Is Active I II I II Rodent control during the past year In Utah county was carried on onn in n only one district In a s systematic manner and that was in the tho vicinity of ot Fairfield according to report of ot Charles J. J Soren Sorensen en agricultural in- in for for Utah co county nt which was submitted to the state department of ot agriculture toda today T The e drive forthe forthe for forthe the destruction of the rodents re reI resulted re- re suIted in the killing of ot rabbits While campaign has been conducted for the destruction of ot ground squirrels gophers field fieldI mice mice and rats 35 35 farmers treated acres for the destruction of ot ground 1 squirrels seventy five farmers farm rs treated tr 67 acres for tor pocket gophers gophers and and sixty farmers applied I poisoned baits in acres of ot or orchards or- or c for destruction of field Held mice In ninety four communities sparrows were killed and 2072 acres we were e treated with ith poisonous bran branI baits halts for fOX the destruction of ot of grassi grass grass- hoppers I Noxious white top w weed F ed now seI seriously se- se I threatens threatens ns Utah county says I the report renor and that it is practically I beyond control in the Spanish Fork district including Spanish Fork canyon and extending westward west to the lake while in nearly every section section section sec sec- tion of the county the pest occurS occurs in n small patches latches During the the cana i ponies cleaned sixty four miles m which were infested with noxious weeds and miles mUes including the I principal state and county highways were also cleaned of ot the weed pests while white the four pur railway systems ms In Inthe Inthe inthe the county cleaned approximately three ninety-three miles mUes Four hundred and thirteen weed inspections were made Involving acres The report re report report re- re port cites the fact that the matter of noxious weed control is not tal taken en enas as seriously by a majority of ot farmers farm f ers era as it t should be hence there Is no use in one person eradicating the pest lest It If his neighbor does not but with cooperation n. n a great good can be accomplished In the county towns eighty miles mUes of streets and lots were cleared by request In Provo the campaign for the eradication of all weed pests was carried on with the result that sev sev- S five enty per per er cent cent of t th the we weeds dB were were destroyed I Inspector Sorensen details they the market and quarantine Inspections I and of the grading and standardization tion of ot fruits and vegetables A A. A grand total of ot 69 carlo carloads ds were g graded I