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Show FARM NEWS NOTES j I BY LEW MAR PRICE j County Agent j Bait For Grasshoppers Few insects, if any, levy a heavier heavi-er toll on agriculture than do grasshoppers. grass-hoppers. Plagues of locusts or grasshoppers grass-hoppers have occurred perodically ever since man began the cultivation of crops. We are told in the first report of the L'nited States Entomological Entom-ological commission that outbreaks of grasshoppers have been recorded regularly since the year 1333. We have been damaged to a greater great-er or less degree in Beaver County each year. In a few cases poison bait has been applied, some successfully success-fully and other without apparent success suc-cess in killing the pests. Turkeys have also been used successfully. Grasshoppers are hatching in fields in all parts of the county now. Whether or not they will reach damaging dam-aging numbers cannot be determined yet, but where a close check is kept this can usually be determined before the pests have scattered from their hatching grounds to any extent. The most successful baiting is that applied while the hoppers are small before scattering through the fields. In fact .the expense is usually too great where an entire field of generalized gen-eralized crops must be baited. The bait recommended by the U. S. Bureau of Entomoligy follows: Coarse bran 100 lbs. Crude arsenic 5 lbs. Cane molasses 1 1-2 gal. Water 10 to 12 gal. Sodium arsenite may be used in place of the crude arsenic providing one quart of the 8 pound material or 2 qts. of the 4 pound strength. It will be noted no attractant is shown in this formula. If such is desired either fine ground oranges or lemons, amyl acetate, vinegar, or ground cat-nip will serve the purpose. This bait should be broadcast over the infested area in early morning while the hoppers are feeding on the ground while temperatures are 70 to 80 degrees F. session to fix a state levy for general I fund and high school purposes, also included the promise that the executive execu-tive would allow the lawmakers to consider resubmission if they expressed ex-pressed a desire to do so. The resubmission bloc in both house is confident the legislators will do so and the results of The Telegram's Tel-egram's poll bolstered their hopes. Representative Chris Greenhagen (D. Salt Lake), already has prepared the resolution callng upon the governor to allow the lawmakers to take up resubmission. re-submission. If this passes both houses by a two-third majority, another resolution resolu-tion will be placed before the lawmaking law-making body, providing for resubmission resub-mission of the constitution to allow sale and manufacture of 3.2 per cent beer. Whether a proposal will be submitted submit-ted to provide for resubmission of the constitution for outright repeal or for some modification is regarded by some onlookers as, somewhat debatable debat-able so far. Some lawmakers consider con-sider outright repeal most likely, but others have expressed the opinion that the most that can be hoped for is 3.2 beer at present. |
