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Show Pocket Gopher Poisoning Cam paign at Mayfield Big Success Saturday morning sixty farmers gathered at the store corner in May-field May-field with their pails of carrots and gopher probes in readiness for the day's pocket-gopher poisoning campaign. cam-paign. One hundred and twenty-three quarts of the famous .succulent Sanpete San-pete carrots were carved into 1 x inch cubes and mixed with the proper proportions of strychnine and saccah-rine saccah-rine by District Crop Pest inspector Clinton Kjar, V. L. Johnson of the Biological Survey, and County Agent C. O. Stott. The Captains of each field district distributed the men out to the respective fields with the prepared pre-pared bait and properly constructed gopher probes that had been made by tlie local blacksmith at n very reasonable reason-able cost. The three Government Agents went in various directions with diiferent groups of farme.-s and assisted as-sisted each sub-group in turn with the proper placings of bait in the runways. run-ways. This day's campaign will have cleaned up at least 200 acres of heavily heav-ily infested gopher fields. The field captains will report to the County Agent's office the names of farmers who do not poison and they in turn will be required by crop . pest inspector to clean up their land. The poisoning campaign will continue all next week. Just a good start was made Saturday. The farmers are determined to rid their splendid valley val-ley of this most destructive pest. The campaign is being sponsored by the local Farm Bureau with L. D. Larsen as President and Frank Christiansen Chris-tiansen as crop pest project leader. Ten field captains are working in connection con-nection with them. |