Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-12 | Page 4 | Crickets in Utah

CRICKETS IN UTAH Cache valley farmers report the appearance ap-pearance of crickets in great number and are alarmed as Uafey claim the peats are similar to those which visited visit-ed the pioneers and devastated their j crops 70 years ago. A tract of land ten miles long and , one and a half miles wide, from Franklin to Whitney. Idaho, hr, been : swept by the crickets. Experts at the Utah grlcultural college have tried strychnine, parlt" green and arsenic without marked success suc-cess and so far have been puzzled as lo how to check ihe Invasion. Grasshoppers have appeared in We-1 ber county and Id the southeaster;) 1 part of Ogden owners of small gardens gar-dens report the raspberry bushes and other green stuff covered with the hungry pestn With Utah vallevs w. 11 pupn)a;.-1 and cultivated, the cricket, should be driven out In the pioneer days, ther. were great areas where the pests could reproduce undisturbed and then migrate to the vegetation cm thft I arms. Today there should be no diJ-irict, diJ-irict, except well bock in the hills, where they could multiply under favorable fa-vorable conditions The checking of the crickets should uot be a difficult la?', no