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Show Hopper Campaign Proves Successful Following a month of conservative conserva-tive but intensive fighting, the grasshopper grass-hopper plague, which threatened crops throughout Sanpete county, has practically been mastered. . Late reports re-ports are to the effect that in some remote spots hordes of the hoppers are to be found, but concentrated efforts ef-forts are being waged and it is thought that within another week the damaging pests will be conquered. To-date, To-date, approxmiately 45 tons of grasshoppers grass-hoppers have been snared which are paid for at the rate of a cent per pound and the carcasses have been burned, according to Mr. Kjar, who has been active in aiding the fight against the hoppers. In the northern part of the county, Mr. Kjar stated, where Elmo Irons, a member of the state board of agriculture ag-riculture of Salt Lake, has been in charge, the pests have been difficult to handle and only through the cooperation co-operation of the farmers and the county commissioners has the fight been successful. Between Ephraim and Fountain Green millions of the grasshoppers were found and in some instances crops suffered from the attacks at-tacks of the pests. Through centralization centrali-zation of operations this section has been practically cleared of the crop destroyers. Between Spring City and Mt. Pleasant the section is heavily infested infest-ed with the hoppers and work is to be centered at this point. In South Sanpete, Mr. Kjar stated, the outbreak out-break of the hoppers was confined to only a few localities. Sensing the dangers, the agricultural agent, aided aid-ed by the farmers, checked the spread of the pests and very little loss will be sustained by the beet growers and farmers in the valley. Approximately $800 has been expended ex-pended in the fight to check the spread of the hoppers. Fifty tons of poison, sodium arsenite and white arsenic, were used in killing the pests. Cooperation of the Sanpete board of county commissioners, Mr. Kjar concluded, has been a splendid factor in the campaign to eradicate the grasshopper pests. The commissioners, commission-ers, sensing the danger of crop destruction, des-truction, gave the fullest aid by furnishing fur-nishing the bounty for the hoppers and they also supplied the poison bait. |