24 INJURIOUS INSECTS OF I90Q AND IQIO. 
Sec. 2109. Notice, how and when served.cWhere the owner of the land 
on which said Board shall have decided plowing must be done for the purposes 
herein specified, cannot with reasonable diligence be served with notice 
within the state, it shall be sufficient to serve the said notice by publication 
thereof for two successive issues in the official newspaper nearest said tract. 
Sec. 2110. Must plow in five days.—If the owner or incumbrancer, if 
any, shall fail to plow said tract or tracts as ordered and directed by said 
Board of County Commissioners, within five days after notice as herein pro- 
vided, then, in that event, said Board of County Commissioners shall cause 
said tract or tracts to be plowed, or so much thereof as may be by them 
deemed necessary, and audit and pay for said work out of the general fund 
of said County, upon warrant as in other cases made and provided. 
See. 2111. Expense a lien upon land.—Immediately after the said ac- 
counts are audited and paid by said County Commissioners, it shall be the 
duty of the County Auditor to certify to the County Treasurer the amount so 
expended upon each piece and parcel of land, which certificate shall contain 
the name of the record owner or incumbrancer of said tract, a true descrip- 
tion of said land, the amount paid by the county for plowing done thereon; 
and the County Treasurer shall thereupon enter said amount against said 
land as taxes are entered against said land, and the said amount shall con- 
stitute a lien upon said land prior to all other incumbrances, and shall bear 
interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum from date of entry by the 
County Treasurer, and collection thereof may thereafter be made and enforced 
in the same manner as delinquent taxes are enforced and collected against 
real property. 
Sec. 2112. Payment out of general fund.—When the Board of County 
Commissioners shall deem the plowing of state land necessary for the pur- 
poses herein specified, they shall order the same done, and payment therefor 
may be made out of the general fund of the county, upon warrant as in other 
cases provided; provided, however, that no growing crops shall be de- 
stroyed under the provisions of this article; provided, further, that when the 
Board of County Commissioners shall deem it necessary to cause plowing 
upon government land held by resident claimants, or other means to cause 
the destruction of grasshoppers and Rocky Mountain locusts, said claimant 
shall be liable to the county in a civil action for all moneys necessarily ex- 
pended in carrying out the directions of the Board of County Commissioners 
for the purpose herein specified. 
A Partial List of Reverted Lands in Wilkin County in 1910. 
Of all localities this county appeared to be the worst affected 
during 1910, and since we have found that similar conditions in 
other counties in the Red River Valley are largely responsible for 
grasshopper injury, we give here a partial list of these lands in 
Wilkin, with the names of the owners or representatives of the 
owners, as reported to us at the County Auditor’s office: 
