| Show at that time forty days after hatching the hopper la to ready to fly get now get busy this tall fall and plow up as Rs jt many eggs ego ae possible next spring organize your fighting forces be en cn athe the lookout tor for young hoppers ae an baon roon as they appear begin flaw ing at once hopper poison may kill a few bees but it you dont use the poison the hoppers will absolute ly ruin your lour nectar low flow and you wont need the bees organization in Is the koy key to the whole business in fighting pests north dakota in 1918 from four counties spent spout in 1919 twentynine twenty nine counties count tee spent directions for fighting it Is beat to hare have bran and arsenic all mixed at a mixing station this insures a proper mixing and eliminates other which might arise when putting out poison be bo sure suro and cover i entire infected area at the same time too much banana oil in the mixture will repel the insects do not spread bait on a cloudy day the beat time to spread bait is usually irm ir m so the people may know by A B thomas secretary vernal venial chamber r of commerce on july 14 1 I sander president of the vernal chamber of commerce merco presided at a meeting to hear the reports report fl of at stewart lockwood expert entomologist ot of the U 8 department part ment of agriculture sent bere at the request of congressman don B colton and who for two days bad had studied the grasshopper and cricket atlon on diamond mountain and in tho the ashley valley and reservation points E peterson uintah county agent waa was the first speaker he stated that the problem has been serious from his view vie w point since early last spring he that during tho the entire season chati he could soo see that the pest situation was liable to get the best of us musj some time aeo ago peterson and theo johnson presented the matter before don B colton who wired to washington D C and as a result the expert was sent to look the sit over mr peterson Pet oreon also stated that most farmers hayo have boon been doing all in their power to handle the situation he thinks that now we should call on the state for help he further said that if we quit now that ninety per cent of our effort has been vr wasted asted he also said that many people are terribly excited now who six weeks ago were not interested in this proposition government Govern mont expert speaks usually people have to suffer for a year before they will actually eel get down and fight pests said mr air lockwood usually tho the first yo year a few farmers report some damage 1 until p ln however certain conditions may alter this time it they begin to climb tho the stalks of planta plants they aro are through feeding so 90 do no spread any more bait balt AA to finance you must raise all the money that you can first the more that you can craise the more you will bo be apt to set get fro from m outside sources then call upon the governor of your state the governor of at colorado when called upon from some of his outlying districts for help alone along same line got busy and raised 2 dono done the next year the damage increases whilo while tho the third year a completeness eness loss is suffered and then tho the people become willing to get down to business and fight 1 I ho lie stated that he has seen more grasshoppers hero than lie he has seen for many a year he also found that we bavo have less combative parasites than bo be usually finds with tho the number ot of crickets that you have on diamond mountain and with the small amount of finance to fight them vi ith I 1 don soo see where you are go ing to get off at said mr lockwood the situation up there Is alarming an act ot of providence only will save this valley unless you people get busy while the crickets remain on the mountain their worst da damage mago Is to range grass they cat the flowers floers and geed seed of the grass consequently there will bo be no range seeded this year I 1 have never yet seen crickets aa as thick as they are hero here never saw so thick 1 I saw places today where I 1 give the farmer a dime for his 1116 whole crop said sald mr lockwood one could see plainly enough that lie bad had a good crop started there this 3 a car I 1 want you men to realize the seriousness of this situation I 1 bave never seen hoppers so thick as I 1 saw them today life history of hopper the hoppers are now laying eggs tho female sinks her abdomen into tho the ground and laya lays 40 to SO 90 eggs in one pod she sho laya lays ia pod every two weeks hoppers have one generation a sens on in early spring you f ann cnn ran seo see them if you look closely they are about the size of at see column one in denver from their civic or he then persuaded the american red cross to donate 2000 after which the state made its appropriation you can probably work it along similar lines in this state C cost bat less now in conclusion mr lockwood emphasized pha sized again tho importance et of I 1 betting getting busy at lit once do not wait until yoi YOU have suffered a com complete plAte failure for 0 40 year or two it wont ont cost you as much to kill these in docta now low ELS as it will it you let them it 7 go o 0 tor for another year and you will have saved the crops which you are bound to lose dunles you pet get into this and get got into it right to may cause great loss at this point in the meeting mr wilkinson of the peppard seed co a few low remarks regarding the seriousness of this situation Ho stated that right now tho seed med crop for this basin la to split right in half aa as a result of 0 tho the hoppers and that it wan was liable to be ninety per cent failure unless the people got busy the main point that he be wished to impress was wag that if the people fight they can win out it bas been accomplished complis hed la in other places aad and it lt can be done here joseph hacking stated that he 16 kad seen more crickets aad and in 1111 the last two daye days mw ke e lad IPA neen la in hie his whole life before jf V don D B colton poke spoke a feat few A words and expressed th the ree i KAY bof of 11 impressing the people with she he of or this actuation xe also suggested BUgge eted that jl aw aa I 1 |
