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Show Extensive Program of Grasshopper Control Will Be Started Soon, Infestation Serious Work will be started soon on the control of grasshoppers In the Cedar Mountain area, according accord-ing to Stephen L. Brower, Iron County agricultural agent It is reported that the pests are beginning be-ginning to hatch and the control con-trol program will get under way soon. A very extensive program of grasshopper control was started last summer through the cooperation coop-eration of several agencies and livestock groups and landowners. The program proved successful last summer and a similar pro gram will be carried out again this year, although a new type of spray will be put to use, Mr. Brower says. , A buffalo turbine spray will be used in the mountains to control con-trol the hoppers. Last .year spreaders were used to place the bait. The control of the grasshoppers grass-hoppers in the mountain areas will be conducted over a period of several years so that the pests can be eradicated. They did considerable con-siderable damage to mountain ranges two years ago, with grasshopper grass-hopper damage being considered as great as drouth damage of the same year, he said. , Considerable spraying has already al-ready been done on valley farms for grasshopper control. An intensive in-tensive program has been started at Paragonah and farmers of Newcastle and the Escalante Valley Val-ley are spraying their acreages. Over 100 acres of alfalfa and pasture land has been sprayed I on the Weyl-Zuckerman farm by air. |