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Show I SAVE CROPS BY DRIVE TO KILL OFF RODENTS SANDPf 1.'T, Ida.. Nov. 20 savings sav-ings of $37,000 of crops are estimated to have resulted from the i;i2l campaign cam-paign for destruction of rodents. In Bonner county. A compilation of results of the farm bureau campaign shows that 464 ounces of strychnine were ills; ributcd to 442 farmers, and that 1 7 .t tht-8" farmers reported crop saved to ral ue of 117,932.:.0 These firmer rS-ported rS-ported that they poisoned a total of 1'.475 acres an average of acres per farm- The average cost per farm was $4.47 anil the average saving per farm was f i o t . The university extension division, cooperating with the blologls hi survey, distributed poison' on 6i2o acres of l ubhc land :n the county, which, with the estimated 20.200 acres irvated by me farmers, made a total of 26,220 acres for the count . The 167 farmers reports indicated that $1. 42 worth Of ropa was saved for eac h acre poison - d. and application of this proportion to the 26.220 acre total for the county gives the estimated total saving of ?37.000. |