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Show oo iroppi hs m men RKGINA Bask . Sept ! o. Not more than 8.000 acres of grain have been destrocd b irras.-hopperv over the entire en-tire province, to date this year, despite de-spite the fact that the infested area is from sixteen to eighteen times ns great as last year, when about the; same acreage was destroyed, accord-1 Ing to a compilation of statistics by I the field representatives of the Sa.s-i katehewan department of agriculture ! A total of about 8,500 tons of poison Ingredients has been used, Including! 130 carloads of bran, thirteen cars of sawdust, 120,000 Rations of molassi -six carloads of arsenic, a carload of parls green and seven carloads, or 2,80", cases, of lemons. |