Show Fighting Bugs In The Forests Trees Trees of them Infested with bark beetles and dying are to be sprayed with oil off and burned by bythe the Forest Service to prevent the spreading of destructive forest Insects In the Intermountain In In- Region according to District District District Dis- Dis Dis Dis- Forester R. R H. H Rutledge Over men are now in the camps on the Teton Wyoming Caribou and Cache National Forests where they will search for the lodgepole pine trees containing broods of mountain pine bark beetles and by use of specially special special- ly prepared hand pumps spray the trunk to a height of 30 feet with fuel oil The men will then set fire to the trees thus killing the beetles in the bark before they emerge and fly to other trees two Thirty-two thousand gallons gallons gal gal- lons Ions or five car loads of fuel oil will willbe willbe be used The work has to be done In Inthe inthe inthe the early spring before there Is danger of forest fires Last year trees were treated and the number of newly Infested found this year was thereby re reduced reduced reduced re- re to third one-third the number found the year |