Show HENS HAMPER HOPPERS on the Scotts blua reclamation project mitch ell bebr wh where ere the grasshopper pest has been particularly bad this year various methods of control have been tries trea on out t one ot of tho the most successful methods on served so far tar was used bya by a tanner farmer who has a quarter section ot of land five hundred chickens divided into lots ot of were kept in colony houses on SO 80 acres ot of the farm and moved about as occasion required As a result on the hair ot of the farm where the chickens were pastured there were only about 20 per cent as many hoppers as on the other 80 abes acres this Is a better snowing than has been made on most ot of the fields where poison was distributed the owner and the renter found the method profitable after they had used what they needed of 0 the poultry tor for domestic purposes and after the weasels and coyotes had taken their toll the rest were marketed and brought in about 75 per cent of the original investment this year the tha owner Is stocking the farm chickens as insurance against the grasshopper pest |