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Show GRASSHOPPER II Fight Has Ceea Long and Hard One According Tothe Expert. Ur. E. T. Uail of the Utah Afii-eultural Afii-eultural Colleso experiinent station is in receipt of a ielrer from John K. Hardy, special a;e:it of the siation in charge of the grasshopper war being be-ing waged in ?..uuete valley, saying that lie beiievi'S the big fight with the pest has been won by his forces. Over sixty men with fifty-four teams turned out and plowed, dragged and rolled a strip of ground lying; along the west side of the valley to destroy the grasshopper eggs. The physical physi-cal conditions of this strip of ground were especially favorable for ihe laying and hatching of these eggs: an almost solid layer of eggs of considerable con-siderable thickness was found jui't beneath the surface of the ground, in many places, which would have supplied sup-plied hoppers enough to clean oui the whole valley, had they been allowed al-lowed to hatch. About 33 acres in all, covering a stretch of . fifteen miles, were subjected to this treatment. treat-ment. The purpose is t3 bury the eggs so deeply in a compact soil that they will rot. This is 1101, however, the ordinary method of getting rid of this insect, but it was the only one that could Jje used this spring, owing ow-ing to the great amount of wet weather. wea-ther. Vsually the eggs are turned out and let to dry. Should Ihe de-young de-young hoppirs come out in consul-rice consul-rice employed not succeed and the erable numbers, a Urge force of men will be ready with brush drags to run over the infested parts and mash the young hoppers. However, Dr. nail says he feels that the menace of a grasshopper onslaught is over. A very serious condiiiou was ex-jerienced ex-jerienced with the pest last year in lanpete but nothing like what il vOLild have been this season had the 'nsecis been allowed to hatch. Still the large number of invading hoppers laid eggs enough to insure a terrible loss to fanners this season had il lot been for the Ittt'tfs' vigilance. It will be remembered that eight years ago a terrible grasshopper wa; was waged ill Sanpeto valley, which cost the state thousands of dollars ii bounties and other thousands in ti unspent un-spent and crop losses of its citizens. The bounty paid was one dollar r bushel and the farmers were able to recoup themselves in a measure free, their losses by killing and gufherinr-iie gufherinr-iie hoppeis. |
