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Show I Grasshoppers Are Threat To Sanpete County Farmers Grasshoppers are beginning to , hatch in Sanpete county and we want to urge farmers to make preparations for control this season. sea-son. Unless more farmers participate par-ticipate in baiting grasshoppers, there will be considerable crop losses. Bran, sawdust, and sodium fluosilicate will be used for bait this year. It, however, will be mixed mechanically by use of a new mixing machine recently purchased by Sanpete County Commissioners. The machine is being installed this week bv Neal Benson, supervisor of grasshopper grasshop-per control work in the County and Mr. Heber F. Thornly, State Supervisor. May we recommend and urge that early season baiting be practiced prac-ticed wherever possible. Young hoppers can be successfully controlled con-trolled in fence rows, ditch banks, and other marginal areas where egg beds are located and where concentrated populations first develop. Our concentration areas are in meadow lands. On the higher areas of land these concentrations con-centrations are destroyed before the young hopper migrate to field areas. Much destruction can be avoided. Therefore, let us urge everyone to begin planning their work now so they can get bait material distributed. Russell R. Keetch, County Agricultural Agent. |