Show I Airplanes Ianes May may DC Be Sought to Aid Aid in War on Crickets in Colorado VERNAL Aug 5 Special Special Special-An An appeal may be sent to Wa Washington D. D C C. asking that airplanes be sent Into Moffat Routt and Rio Blanco BianCo I counties of ot northwestern Colorado to spra poison polson gas on the menacIng menacing menacing ing hordes of ot crickets that have done more than limn worth of ot dama damage e In Moffat county alone during during dur Our ing the tile past three years Many farmers and und their families h have ve quit the county in debt and despair caused by the ins Insect ct pests The crickets overrun grain fields and gardens in such vast numbers that crops crop are arc utterly destro destroyed edI ed I The hordes of ot Insects Insects' ha have hae e miI migrated migrated mi mi- mi- mi grated Into Routt county in such I numbers that the commissioners have constructed man many miles of or metal tenCe on ton the western line of ot I the the county to keep the pests from rota making further Inroads s. s They rhey have announced that it necessary they I will fence tence off ort the entire county line f A point meeting of the commissioners commissioners commissioners commis commis- counties affected af at- of the three will be held to decide the most effective method of ot destroying destroyIng destroy destroy- ing the Insects and the appeal for airplanes may toll follow ow Tourists arriving from Craig re report report report re- re port that in some Instances the highways are so infested with crickets that thousands thousand are aTe killed by the cars passing through tilt tIle migrating hordes Apparently the pests have their breeding places In Inthe Inthe Inthe the higher altitudes as the tile first Inva in invasion In- In va lon each year comes from the mountain slopes The commissioners of ot Routt- Routt ana anaRio Rio Blanco Bianco counties are aiding the farmers tanners with funds funda tad and labor hut nui the tile officials of Moffat c county which is in ill the more Infested s sectiOn section sec sec- c- c tion have not as yet et decided on any method of assisting the farm aria farmers ers whose crops are being de de- de |