Show completes cricket control program in in san juan county nearly six thousand acres of federal range which was in danger of being denuded by mormon crickets has recently been subjected to a poisoning program and bureau of land management officials report the project a complete success bureau of land management worked in cooperation with the bureau of entomology furnishing the grain prior to poisoning the crickets were so thick on the ground 1 it was difficult to keep from stepping on them areas of greatest infestation were on a 3 acre re seeded area crickets eis were climbing the grass stems and devouring the young immature seed heads mr kinnaman of the local bureau of land Manage ement office states that bad luck on the start of the program set poisoning back just long enough that some of the crickets had laid their eggs in the ground and therefore it will be necessary to the area again next summer as soon as these eggs are hatched saving the grass from destruction for the summer was a considerable sid erable saving not only from a game and livestock standpoint but also from a watershed standpoint |