Show HS EXTER lim v john W smith of center dale A N grover J W murray and nicoll jorgensen of ridgedale and carl lder ot of howell stopped off in brigham yesterday morning on their wap to salt lake lak city while in this city these gentlemen gave an ail interesting report of 0 a com laign just completed by the farmers in pocatello valley to exterminate the grasshopper pest the hopper pest had become so hazardous in that section that entire fields of grain were wiped out by their destructive work it Is estimated that over an area of acres ot of grain there were three hoppers to every square inch of 0 ground they would travel in droves like a regiment of soldiers arid and wipe out all vegetation before them this army ot of hoppers entered a 65 acre grain agrain field at 10 one morning last week passing over it at 3 in the afternoon it is said they laid the beautiful crop of 0 grain waste and not a bit of vegetation down to a depth of one inch under the ground was left they travel so fast that one would think they hardly had time to eat anything yet by the time the horde of hoppers have passed over a field it is stripped of all vegetation last saturday county agricultural agent smith of malad gathered up forty different specimens of hoppers following the extermination campaign through the cooperation of tile the county agricultural agent and the farm bureau d a mash composed of arsenate bran and saw dust was obtained by the farmers and this poison was spread over the fields in the path of the the hoppers the poisonous mash was devoured readily and the hoppers were so raver rave pus vms it Is said that they even ate the lead dead carcasses so effective was this of dest luction that practically all 0 of it the h e 11 hoppers have been exterminated the grasshopper pest it is said appears appeals once in every seven years the farmers in pocatello valley had a similar experience seven years ago I 1 but at that time the hoppers were not so thoroughly killed oft off no 00 |