TWEXTY-FIFTH REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 



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cultivated crops were prevented for tlie most part Ijut tlie range was 

 destroyed over a wide territory and millions of eggs depositeil for the 



coming season. 



Figure 6. — Mormon eriekets (^Aiiabrus simplex) 

 being herded together preparatory to Ijiirning. 



Carbon County furnished funds for the purchase of more dusters 

 and large amounts of arsenic and lime. Poisoning of the crickets 

 began in May and extended through most of the season. Relief labor 

 was employed in the dusting operations. This may or may not have 

 had something to do with the results obtained but the fact remains 

 that crickets were not controlled. Millions of them were killed by 

 burning and poisoning and the rest driven l)aek into the mountains 



