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Show Grasshoppers Threaten Utah Crops Again Utah is again threatened with a serious grasshopper outbreak, according to George F. Knowlton, Associate Entomologist, Utah State Agricultural experiment station. Some parts of Sanpete, Sevier and Millard counties are already being attacked by hoards of young grasshoppers, and many of the eggs have not i yet hatched. Every farmer should watch the roadsides, road-sides, foothills and other breeding areas near his farm, and if grasshoppers grass-hoppers become abundant, he should destroy them early. Poison bait should be applied to the breeding areas before the young grasshoppers become widely scattered scat-tered through the agricultural areas. ar-eas. The bait should be applied in early morning of clear days, about the time 'the temperature reaches 70 deg. F, and before it reaches 90 deg. Grasshoppers feed most readily during the morning. It is much easier and more economical econ-omical to kill lareg numbers of grasshoppers while thev are still young and concentrated in a relatively rel-atively small area, than after they become adult and are widely scattered through the cultivated areas. A good control is usually obtained- by a poisoned bait made according to the following formula, formu-la, if it is properly mixed and applied: ap-plied: White arsenic or sodium arsenite 1 lb. ' Cheap molasses or syrup.. 2 qts. Wheat bran or alfalfa mean 25 lbs. Water 2-3 gal. Amyl acetate oz. Crude arsenic from the smelters smel-ters may be obtained rather cheaply and may be substituted for white arsenic or sodium arsenite, ar-senite, using 1M, pounds. Tha wheat bran should be free from shorts, and may be used hall bran and half sawdust, to give ease in mixing and spreading; the results are usually about equal eq-ual to those obtained by using all bran, and the cosl is much less. Three ounces of vinegar, or 6 oranges or lemons, substituted for amyl acetate usually give good results. The bait should be applied fresh, scattered thinly over ov-er the ground, and often two light applications are better than just one heavy application of the bait. |