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Show FIGHTINQ THE GRASSHOPPERS. rrom various porlloni of Utnh reports re-ports continue tn come In regarding the great depredation being done by the grasshoppers ln Sanpete county the boiint) paid by the Commissioners Impelled the people to catch thousands of busheH of ihe hoppers Other counties, coun-ties, notably Utah county, nre offering the same Inducement and tho hoppers are being killed by the millions. The pi in of catching the hoppers by means of sweeping over tho llelds with outstretched out-stretched sheets is good and perfectly feasible where crops of grain or lucerne have been temove.l However, In tho Baldens, orchittdn nnd beet lb Ids the crops ond tiees render tho wholesale calhing of hoppers ' Impractical. In such enses the most effective method of warfare Is to use the poisoned bran mash While looking over the grasshopper grass-hopper conditions In Weber count) last I week, we vlilted the fmm ot .Mr. John J Corte7, near Ogden Mr. Corte7 has used the poisoned bran threo enrs nn I lie regtrdH It ns tho cheapest and most effective means of destro)lng the post. The mash consists of sixteen pounds of bran wet Into a stiff dough with witter In which one pound of nrsenla nnd tlnec quarts of cheap molasses have been dissolved The mixture rtinul 1 be so that It will irumble Into little balls of dough nnd Ii then sown hiondcast over the feeding grounds of the hoppers It li Important that thcro bo moist ground or grass near whero the hoppers get the bran, for like all other poisoned animals or Insects, tho hoppers seek tho witter after eating the mixture. An Inspection of tho beet llelds on tho Cortex farm revealed dead hoppers literally piled up itlong tho wet furiows and on the ditch banks, whllo on the diy lin.l there weio nn dead ones to be seen. Mr. Cortejs spreads out the K)lsoned brtin every ten dn)H and Is Him In the conviction that thit In the cheapest nnd most effective plan to adopt. He puts great stress upon the necemlty ot having wet grass or open ditches where tho hoppers may get at the moisture Not only nre tho hoppers killed by eating tho bran, but others feed upon the dead ones and nro polnsoned thereby. Thus the method works ns a sort of endless chain. Tor the protection of joune fruit tit-es thero Is no plan so effective ns spra)lng once each week with kerosene emulsion, seven to one. Kven tho tries In beating may bo thus treitcd, slnco the spin) will not Injure the fruit nn 1 It will kill all sorts of sucMi g Insects lt In of the utmost Importance thnt speed) action be taken In lighting the grasshnpptis. since thin is the season for egg la)lng nnd the crop of hoppers for next enr may be greatly lessened through the destruction ot the inatuiu ones tit this time. |