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Show County mosquito control needs assistance of all individuals From the Utah County mosquito' mo-squito' control program comes the recommendation for citizens citi-zens to assist the program by notifying local officials of suspected sus-pected mosquito breeding areas so they can be sprayed. With its warm summer months and hundreds of small bodies of standing water, Utah County is ideal mosquito country. coun-try. In some past years, mo- production in Utah County could be prevented. Because some mosquitos have already emerged as adults, provisions pro-visions have been made to kill these adults by means of a fogging machine. County citizens can help with the mosquito control program by notifying their local officials of suspected mosquito breeding areas. squitoes have been produced by the hundreds of thousands from one end of the County to the other. However, the present mosquito control program is now preventing the production of large numbers of mosquitoes in most places. Four spray crews and their supervisors are continually working to locate and treat the mosquito breeding breed-ing areas in ther ural parts of the County. Mosquito control is a big job. The ponds and swamps which do not produce mosquitoes mosquit-oes have to be located and identified so that they will not be treated by the spray crews. On the other hand, waste irrigation irri-gation water standing on pasture pas-ture lands may produce large numbers of mosquitoes. These must be found and treated within a few days or else the young mosquitoes will emerge and fly to nearby areas. Sluggish, Slug-gish, weed-filled ditches, poorly drained borrow pits and run-off water from flowing wells offer of-fer mosquitoes many an ideal breeding place. Along with the treatment of mosquito infested waters with approved chemicals, mosquito control personnel in cooperation coopera-tion with the County Commission Commis-sion and the County Agent's Office, are encouraging better water management programs. With better water management practices, most of the mosquito |