Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-06-14 | Page 2 | Grasshoppers Menace Crops

I GRASSHOPPERS MENA MENAcE E CROPS Bol Bolshevik hevik Invaders Worst in Sanpete County Likening them to a horde of or bolshevik Invaders on destruction bent Theron W. W Bennion reports to the crops and pests commission that swarms of warrior grasshoppers menace Sanpete county es especially especially especially es- es In In- Inthe the vicinities les of Wales Chester Chester Chester Ches Ches- ter Moroni Ephraim and Manti ManU Mr Bennion is deputy state crops and pests Inspector for Sanpete county To avert the loss threatened by these these- pests a of destruction Is be beIng being belIng be- be lIng ing waged by the farmers farmer of Sanpete county according to the deputy Inspector The winged warriors against mans man's welfare welfare welfare wel wel- I fare are now hatching by the at the edges of swamps Mr Bennion pays SASS SAS'S and mounted men are employed to to ride In the vicinity of the hatching i places es to destroy tr the grasshoppers ss br brI before I they develop d wings n se for f flying I They 1 I shed hed their wings several times it is stated by the deputy Inspector in the process of or achievIng wings an aol I when they tl take to flight they are capable of negotiating nel long distances It Is in an effort to avert losses losse that the tte campaign campaign cam cain is being waged earty earsy in the sea sea- son Harold P F. F Hagan secretary 01 ol the crop crops and pests commission sa says s that In the vicinity of the Great Salt lake the danger danger danger dan dan- I ger of loss Is not so great as the seagulls seagulls sea sea- gulls which come up from th tb briny I waters onto the land devour the he hopI hoppers hoppers hop hop- pers pel'S and keep their numbers al at a a. como com com- o I minimum In some seasons j I heretofore the loss to crops on account I as of i grasshopper In a single raids has county ti reached e C e the as state high f He says that as a rule however the hoppers infest some localities only In II any given and anti do not overrun the state as a whole so that the condition described by Mr MI Bennion as existing I lin In Sanpete county does not obtain ever everywhere every every- I where e In Utah