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Show Scientific Extcrnilnntlon. A profcsslopal "grasshopper exterminator extermi-nator has visited Sanpete couuty lately for the purpose of giving the people there the benefit ot hie scientific knowledge In clearing tho county of tho hoppers. After rnak'ng a careful examination of tho situation he advised, the people to dig deep ditches with holes in the bottom bot-tom of them, and drive the hoppcrp in boforo they aro old pnough to lly. If they want to collect jho bounty they can then sack them hp and deliver them, and If they don't want tho bounty, boun-ty, they can bury them in the holes in the ditch. Whero they don't dltoh them tho man ot science says it is practicable prac-ticable to drag a brush harrow over them, or drown them by flooding the land Vafore they are old enough to hop out of the way. Another plan ia to burn thorn by spreading straw over them and setting it on Are. "Whero the mcacows aro level and frco from greasewood" it is said a ''baloon" may be used to gqod advantage. This of course would bo before they get wlngn, as it would bo no uso to drop u grasshopper grass-hopper out of a baloqn In the expectation expecta-tion of breaking his neck if he had wings. Professor Hall has spent five years studying the grasshopper in Colorado Col-orado and has not yet found out when they lay their eggs, but lie is going ta put in the summer this year in search of further light.' In looking over the plans, of destruction recommended by tho learned gentleman It occurs to us that they bear a striking rescmblapco to tho methods employed by the Pio-nccra Pio-nccra of Utah 55 years ago, with the ex-ceptlqn ex-ceptlqn of the huloou scheme. |