. Bulletin. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Arizona. How TO Combat Rabbits, etc. 335 dry weather, when the ants are activ.^ and when there is no strong wind to blow the powder away. The best time to begin the treatment is wh:n the ants first become active in the spring. Th: application should be repeated at intervals of one week to ten days, as long as ants continue to show up. The poison acts slowly, killing the ants in one to three days. In crawling back and forth across the poison the ants get the fine powder on their hgs and bodies and thus carry it into their nests and track it over their foo
. Bulletin. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Arizona. How TO Combat Rabbits, etc. 335 dry weather, when the ants are activ.^ and when there is no strong wind to blow the powder away. The best time to begin the treatment is wh:n the ants first become active in the spring. Th: application should be repeated at intervals of one week to ten days, as long as ants continue to show up. The poison acts slowly, killing the ants in one to three days. In crawling back and forth across the poison the ants get the fine powder on their hgs and bodies and thus carry it into their nests and track it over their food supply. Ants infesting houses ehould be traced to their nests if possible and destroyed by pouring in a small amount of coal oil or carbon bisulphide. Th:se small ants are valuable in grain or seed bins. They destroy the larvae of harmful insects, especially pea and bean Weevils, and grain weevils. GRASSHOPPERS Grasshoppers are on the whole th? worst, or one of the worst, pests with which the Arizona farmer has to contend. Grasshoppers not only destroy crop-, gardens, and fruit trees, but also do much damage to the range by destroying grass and mesquite bean Fig_ 9.—Turkeys are great grasshopper destroyers. They should be herded in order that they niav keep on the move and also that coyotes may not harm them. Herding an hour in the morning" and an hour in the late afternoon and penning for the rest of the day and at night is a good plan to handle them. Some one in the comnnmity co\ild well make a specialty of raising and herding turkevs, or taking them to raise and market on shares, thus doing a large enough business to afford' to devote his time to it. (Note the boy in the background and also how the turkeys string out in a line). In communities where these pests appear in large numbers and where the region is sparsely settled, it is difficult and expensive for a farmer who is surrounded by uncultivated land to save much of his crop. However, if active measufe
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