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Show After the Rabbits and Squirrels The county commissioners are showing no small interest in having the rabbit and squirrel pests exterminated and are offering offer-ing liberal rewards for the heads and ears of these destructive creatures. One of these animals killed in the vicinity of your ranch in early spring means a saving of many times what the cost of extermination ex-termination is. Yet the bounty offered by the commissioners will amply pay for the trouble of extermination. ex-termination. All should get busy early this spring and see what a different appearance the growing crops '.vill make compared com-pared with last year after a determined de-termined fight is waged on the squirrel and rabbit. Instead of a ragged edged grain field for several rods in, you will have a full crop clear to the fence. Then compute the loss of last year and figure up how much grain in dollars dol-lars an cents you lost and see what your reward will be if you kill off the pests before they get your grain. The bounty on rabbits, is 4 cents each and on squirrels 2 cents each. The following persons of the county have been appointed to receive the ears and heads of these animals: Wanted: 300 Fence Posts in exchange for Deseret water, also al-so Deseret water for rent. J. F. Brumund, Hinckley Ut. flOtf A civil service examination is announced to take place at Provo Feb'y 2fith, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Postmaster McCosh. Holclen, John Wood; Scipio, O. L. Thompson; Meadow, C. R. Gull; Kanosh, - Hyrum Prows; Delta, Leonard Broderick; Leamington Leam-ington and Lynndyl, Fred Neil-son; Neil-son; Oak City, Joseph Lyman & Co. ; Hinckley, T. H. Pratt; Deseret Dese-ret and Oasis, Joseph Damron; Southerland, Wm. Walker; Wood-row, Wood-row, Robert Jenkins. Following is one of the methods meth-ods being used in Iron county to do away with the rabbit and so far poisoning seems to be the most successful way to get rid of Mr. Bunny: Build pens where the rabbits are the thickest 14x14 feet, wired sufficiently to keep out all kinds of stock, but through which the rabbits can pass without with-out difficulty. These pens are built about one mile apart. In each pen about 30 lbs. of alfalfa leaves are placed. About four days later an additional 16 lbs. of hay is put in the pens and sprinkled with. 2 gallons of water wat-er in which one ounce of strychnine strych-nine has beea dissolved. It certainly means a wonderful thing to the farmers of this valley if we can get rid of the pest, and we believe that on a 40-acre field of $1.00 wheat, good stand, the farmer loses, where these pests are numerous, from $50 to $60 worth of grain. We would be glad to hear from any one who has a good method of destroying' the rabbit and squirrel. Ray and Greenwood, well known land men of Salt Lake, who are extensively interested in Millard county lands, recently closed a deal with Messrs Betts, Sumpter and Perkins of Omaha whereby they transferred to them some 10,000 acres of their holding located near Holden. The deal involved about $100,-000. $100,-000. The men who bo't the land will colonize it and it is expected that a number of artesian wells will later be put down on some of the land. Connect up with a Jack-Jr. for your pumping, washing, etc. Billings of Delta has them. d30tf |