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Show boy scouts will kill grasshoppers B SAN FRANCISCO, May 31. Among B the man activities to which the Boy B Scouts have pledged themselves in Cal- B ifornia is that of protecting tho farmer M against any possible invasion by grass- M hoppers Every year grasshoppers do B damage to crops in some section of tho B state, but if early information Is avail- B able to the growers as to the breeding B placos of the posts, thoy can be at- B tacked before thoy have a chanco to B migrate to the farmers' Acids. B Five men from tho agricultural de- B partment of the Unlvoraity of Califor- B nia have been making a survey of the B state in order to discover the grass- B hopper breeding grounds for this sea- B Fon. As those have been found the H , P.o Scouts have made their drives on H inq enemy. Tho control of graashop- H per lb jhest accomplished at the time H they are assembling, which always oc- H curs before migration. At that" time H the Insects aro attacked with Bomo H form of hopper-dozer, and may be kept H: under restraint. |