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hoppers on their own land and it had been doing some good. The idle acres were the problem. And there were thousands of acres of unfarmed land. The county was divided into three divisions. Each division had a supervisor who had several crews that would be out spreading bait.
The bait was either sawdust or bran that was mixed with molasses and arsenic. This was poison to anything that ate it.
The spreaders were on the same principle as an end-gate seeder; The bait fell on a fan and was scattered behind the wagon or trailer. If it was spread thin enough on the ground it didn't get in the livestock feed and not too many cattle were lost from poison.
I was given one of the supervisor jobs and we were taken to Aberdeen where each of us got a new government pickup to drive.
The spreading was to be done early in the morning before it got hot and dried up the bait. Also as a
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