Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-18 | Page 8 | Bureau Urges 'Hopper' Fight

BUREAU I i 2 HOPPER SHOPPER FIGHT Advises Farmers to Plow 5 Z Stubble Fields in War WarS i S on Oil Insect Pest r t 2 It Is expecting a bit too much of omnipotence and md the seagulls to take caro varo of the matter every year ear car T That apparently is Ls the attitude of Joseph A A. Anderson AAnderson Anderson president of the Utah Farm Bureau federation on the grasshopper question f for r 1934 Mr Anderson Tuesday appealed to thousands of Utah farmers to 10 begin against this vicious pest in order to prevent heavy crop losses next season There is nn an extremely simple way to handle the situation the farmers were verc told Plowing stubble land during dur duro tag ing the fall tall and early carly spring months buries next years year's grasshoppers in the form of eggs so deeply they are un un- ble to reach the surface on hatch batch hatching lag ing Fifty cents on the dollar S is saved In eradication Uon costs Mr Anderson estimates if it farmers plow all infected infected in in- areas before Ma May Never give a n grasshopper a break Js Is the farm bureaus bureau's slogan in warning warnS warn warn warning ing lag that unless definite action is taken by the farmers there may be a return in 1934 of the plague that made the seagull famous in 1848 18 S