During the Thirties gophers as
well as grasshoppers made havoc
of the grain fields. The
municipality suffering a gopher
infestation provided the poison
that would be mixed with grain
and spread around the gopher
holes. Here we have a gopher
gang about to start on an
expedition to the grain fields.
Municipalities aiso paid a
bounty of one cent to five cents
on gophers. Kids made their
spending money catching gophers
with snares and traps. Municipal
clerks can recall with some
revulsion, no doubt, having a sack
of not—so—fresh gopher tails
dumped on their desks by a
youngster who expected an
immediate count of his bag.

 

 

 

 

The neighbours said it would
never work but George Stott, on
the Lauson tractor, and George
Butler, on the Nicholson Shepard:
combine, proved them wrong.
This photo was taken in 1936.

 

 

Field day brought out this iarge
group of Brandon area farmers in
the summer of 1931. They have an
opportunity to examine and
discuss the quaiity of a stand of
wheat.