Show GOOD WORK DONE IN SEVIER CO 00 TO KILL OFF grasshoppers the sevier county rutih farm bureau saved 36 it to Is estimated by waging a well planned campaign against the native grasshopper at the end of the season the record kept by the county agent showed that pounds of arsenic had been used by farmers this amount yas as sufficient to prep prepare tare pounds ot of poison bait really effective work began in the spring of 1918 when the farm bureau decided to handle the situation A wagon was sent peat 11 97 miles to the sugar factory tor for a ton ot of beet molas molasses mol aBBea sea molasses Is cold so to beet act growers in n limited quantities but for hopper poisoning the factory contented to sell to anyone all the bran in the town of salina was purchased and lemons were secured by the case calla these materials and a pair of scales were delivered on the concrete floor in front of the school schoolhouse holtse and several farm bureau officers cIrs and members were there to do the work the bran was dumped out in pound lots lot three piles being kept going at once the lemons were ground into tubs water was measured from a tap at the edge of the floor and the county agent measured the molasses and weighed the arsenic two men at each pile did the mixing and one of the farm bureau of fibers in charge weighed out the prepared bait selling it at cost that afternoon a ton of bran was mixed up and delivered to 86 25 farm erb era two more public were held by the bureau and a large number of farmers prepared poison bait at their farms |