| Show organize for the big grasshopper Gras er cricket fight 0 o 3 8 peterson uintah county agent each community should now be i organized for or tho the big fight against this hie formidable foe toe which la to ravaging the crops of the count county the organization which has proved most successful is as follows A captain appointed for each community or group where poison is in used two men in the community are appointed to do all of at the mixing A scouting party of four two to go 90 in each direction Is sent out to locate tha infested fields they set up a flag where the work la Is too start they are theo then followed by bi another party who scatters the poison generally wagons are used for this purpose A boy can drive the team while a man sits in lt the rear end with a tub of poison and scatters it as an the team is in driven along some mechanical devises have been used quite successfully of course they are not as eff effective octilo al aa poison but it that there will not be sufficient poison to handle the situation here so wo we will have to resort to mechanical devisee devises several parties are using the balloon very successfully the patterns of this devise may be from william holmes of davis frank morrill of tridell aridell and vern allred of 0 wilson about the same organ leation for this means of can bo be used aa an is in used for poisoning in some of the localities where balloons aro are used communities have chosen up sides with a certain aum nun ber on each aide side the aide side eatch inc tho the most gra grasshoppers whoppers are the guests of tho the losing side to a dance the balloon can only be used at night whoa when the hoppers are upon tee the stems it Is th not effective effect ire during the day or sunlight vreda the grasa hoppers aro are moving about the oll oil dozer which ia is moat most effective effect effe cUye ire earlier elier in the season can be used very 0 effectively in the alfalfa which has just been cut for hay or on an any other short crop the main thing right naw now la in tor for ri all communities to got get together and organize and begin tho the fight at osee for every day these peats pests are de do straying tro ying hundreds hun dreda of dollars worth of valuable crops and they are be ginning their breeding bree dlag season aad and unless they are checked we can ean ex hect a worse scourge next year than we are having now |
