Show wal ON POCKET 5 IN LOW FIRS poison bait is being planted under project leadership of chester christensen saturday evening a meeting of the land o owners adjacent to richfield on the north was held in the court house the meeting yas y called for the special purpose of discussing the damage being done to the lands each year by the pocket packet gopher all farmers present testified that the pocket gopher damage was increasing each year A motion prevailed that efforts be made to form a community project of the same that each land owner be invited to join in the campaign and destroy the gophers on the lands county agent S R boswell explained the habits babits of the gopher goper and dutli outlined d met methods hads of poisoning and trapping them stating that he had made arrangements range ments with the state department of a agriculture for strychnine to be used in the campaign camp dign those present at the meeting recommended that two men be hired to do the work and that they put out poisoned carrots for bait on the lands of all those who wish to join the campaign chester H christensen was appointed to be the leader of the poisoning work and county agent S R boswell was appointed to circulate a petition among land owners |