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Show RODENTS COST STATE BIG SUM YEARLY Some $20,869.65 was expended in rodent control work in Utah during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, according to a report by R. Scott Zimmerman, leader of rodent control work for the United States biological survey in this state.. Of this total amount, $8785 was furnished fur-nished by the federal government, $5000 was furnished by the state for the purchase of strychnine for distribution distri-bution in the various counties; $5584 was furnished by the counties for cost of material not including labor or strychnine, and $500 came from private pri-vate funds for rat and mouse control work. Rodent control work includes the destruction of rats, field mice, ground squirrels, and prairie dogs. In connection con-nection with this work large quantities of poisoned grain were put out, rab-tKt rab-tKt drives were staged and the report declares that in one drive in Box-elder Box-elder county some 60000 rabbits were taken in one afternoon. During the year field demonstrations demonstra-tions in rodent control work were given. Five demonstrations for the control of ground squirrels were given; twenty-one for the "control of prairie dogs; twenty-three for pocket gopher control; twenty-nine for house rat control and five for field mice work, making a total of eighty-three demonstrations. |