Show CONTROL OF PESTS I IN UTAH COUNTY Vast Vat Sums E Estimated t mated to Have Been Saved PROVO Nov 26 Rodent s Rodent and grasshopper grasshopper grass grass- Sass Sass- control has taken up a great part hopper of the t time g of r the county get pest inspector f Heber J. J Webb during duing the past summer in Utah county The poisoned oats for rodents was all al prepared at the inspectors inspector's office The reports received from those using the poisoned mixture indicate that cultivated cultivated cul cul- cul- cul acres and 1550 acres of uncultivated uncultivated uncultivated lard land were treated the average number of animals killed being 18 per acre On the cultivated land the average number killed lied was as 90 per cent and on mallu making male mal the uncultivated land 85 55 per cent ing lu a total of ot One ground doc dor according c n to government government govern govern- o m ment f figures r d' d dan a an average of Jl 1 damage damage dam dam- age on iv land a and 5 cents s on I uncultivated land l laT Tile The e saving to t the county is thus figured at This work was done mainly in Clinton Thistle Mapleton Hobble Creek Goshen Cedar Valley Valey and Lehi districts Four hundred and ninety five pounds of poison used on grasshoppers shows slows b by reports an estimated saving of 40 This was accomplished in tn Mapleton Stapleton Spanish l Fork Payson Santaquin Genola and Benjamin Sparrow Sparow poj poison poiron on according to estimated saved sved bushels of ot wheat which at I per bushel netted a saving of or 18 |