Show ALFALFA SEED PROSPECTS GET GETTING GET GET- I TING BETTER DETTER GR GRASSHOPPERS J CJ CHIEF EF DRAWBACK NO NOW NO s sIn j i In spite s of r hot bot weather or be auAe e of or it lt alfalfa seed prospects on the first now standing are ure bet ter every ever day except In do fields where th the grasshoppers are too numerous u 11 rouf Ey Even en l. l where there are lots or ot hoppers the seed is setting setting- on some but hut dnn damage Is beginning egl to be be apparent I t 1 Some ome farmers report that hoppers are arc dying but hut In most fields where there there ire u re are l hoppers they seem to b be hetting bet het- betting get getting ting bigger and more numerous antI and as us the fields g get t drier drIel the damage 1 na e they do dois dois' dois dois' dois is is' showing up UI ni more r nd more It seems that we uve have bate nil all 1 1 been too tub ow owin in getting started to catch atch and kill the the hoppers There aresen methods of or controlling controlling control control- ling grasshoppers all of them hn certain advantages and and The most satisfactory method is f us W usually po I To control hoppers h b by the tIle farmer should start rt l before e ore Ul hoppers el are grown and while they are still sticking to and around the and ond where they the hatched hed and ancI keep fre freak i h poison poi l bait the hoppers until the they are all killed After they begin to fly get and distributed dis dis- dis over oyer the fields there Is more Territory 1 to cover coyer In ord order r t to get rt the tiie u 1 1 1 poison Oi On to all of them and they may mn n not t be so willing to eat it either i iThe The most successful methods of catching hoppers are with balloon catchers and and- with it i the u i 1 s Ba-s Basin Hopper Dozer i Balloon catchers depend nd to a lar large extent upon the s speed d at af which they then travel trave for for- forthe the number of hoppers OPI e i tl they ej catch and Lag bag b g up Raring Having to mood mon on ona ona ona a trot they will naturally drag off off- some alfalfa blossoms and burrs burr The Uintah tah Basin HOPI Hopper er Doz Dozer rl depends depends depends' depends depends' de de- on catching catchin the tile hoppers in ill abath a abath bath of of cheap petroleum oil The Time oil oll oil I is death to the time ho hopper per If he merel merely touches it and then gets out In con con- construction con construction these dozers are made hilot in hi a alot a alot lot of st styles les according to the farmers personal tastes Those Those that that are most most handled easil handled t tare are built as light as as possible so that the they float on on the time crop rather than bear benr it down to the ground They The are smooth on the time bottom se so that the they donot do donot donot not catch in the crop and of course cours they have tight sheet metal bottoms to hold the time oil anti and a to 10 k keep ep the hoppers from front r jumping entirely ov O over Oer er tire dozer and anel getting away without getting oiled With the time splendid prospects o of a seed crop now apparent rent everyone should see that everything possible is done to control these pests and grow growa a big alfalfa seed crop Alfalfa seed is one big farm product in the Basin Dasin which is not suffering from Crom overproduction o af nf the pre present en time |