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Show County to Seek Aid in Fight On Grasshoppers Iron County plans to seek government gov-ernment aid in its fight against a heavy grasshopper infestation, according to local agriculture and livestock leaders, and the Board of Iron County Commissioners has called a county-wide meet- ing to discuss the problem. The request for aid will be forwarded to the State Agricultural Agricul-tural Mobilization committee, and will be made through the Iron County Agricultural Mobilization Mobili-zation committee, of which Leonard Leon-ard Topham, Paragonah, is chairman. The mobilization committee com-mittee is composed of representatives represen-tatives of agricultural groups of the area. The meeting called by the county commissioners will be held at 8 p. m. Friday, July 25, in the courtroom of the City and County building in Cedar City. Representatives of every community commu-nity in the county will be in attendance, at-tendance, and everyone interested interest-ed in the problem of pest control con-trol on range and farm lands is invited to be present. It . is .estimated that at least 40,000 acres of land in the coun ty," both mountain, ranges and valley farm lands, are infested, with the most critical areas listed list-ed as Cedar mountain ranges, and areas In Paragonah, Newcastle New-castle and Kanarraville; There is also a general Infestation, It is understood, in the Beryl area, and at Quitchapah, and spotted spot-ted infestations in the Parowan valley. Approximately 10,000 acres of infested land has already been sprayed, with excellent kills re-ported, re-ported, but much wider control efforts are needed to prevent continued spread of the grasshoppers. grass-hoppers. Individual and group action has been responsible for extensive spraying in the Paragonah Para-gonah area, and on the Cedar mountain range lands. |