The Verminator by ALL AMERICAN AG

Builds smooth tunnels free from dirt falling on-to bait.
Dispenses one bait or two baits alternately.
Fluted and spring loaded coulter easily and cleanly cuts through trash and stubble.
Easily adjustable for tunnel depth.
Point and entire leading edge of shear is cast chrome alloy for long shear life.
Comes set up for category 1 or 2 tractor hitch.
Easy to operate, setup, adjust and maintain.

POCKET GOPHER

The pocket gopher is an underground dweller, only occasionally coming above ground at night to feed or migrate. It has a brownish fur coat that never gets dirty and fur lined external cheek pouches in which food is carried. Length of head and body is 5 to 8 inches with 2 to 4 inches of tail. The pocket gopher has front teeth that never stop growing and powerful front claws that never stop digging. Altogether, he is an eating, digging machine capable of 150 feet of tunnel a day.

On the average, the female will have 1 or 2 broods a year with 5 or 6 young, but more often, larger broods if survival conditions are good and local gopher population is down. On pasture lands and on uncultivated and non-irrigated areas there is evidently a limited breeding season, some time after the beginning of the spring rains, when green forage becomes available in quantity. On such areas there is probably a single, annual brood. In irrigated regions, especially in alfalfa fields where green forage is always available, breeding occurs throughout the year. In such places, a female may bear up to 4 litters per year, and as high as 13 young per litter.

Pocket gophers are active throughout the year and fresh workings may be found in any month. A gopher will dig up to 7 or 8 tunnels which may extend as much as 800 feet each. Most of the tunneling activity can be seen during the fall. Burrows vary from 2 to 3 inches in diameter. These are mostly parallel to the ground surface, usually at depths of from 6 to 12 inches, with secondary tunnels down 24 to 30 inches. New activity sometimes is not visible above ground, because the gopher is very capable of backfilling tunnels that are no longer needed. By fall, one gopher will have accumulated seven or eight storage rooms packed with tubers and roots. Because of its subterranean nature and the sometimes limited amount of surface sign, the damage caused by this animal often goes unnoticed.

Pocket gophers cause extensive damage to farmers’ crops and orchards. Alfalfa production can be seriously reduced by destruction of root crowns, not to mention the damage caused by the mound to the product and equipment at harvest time. Gophers cut roots of trees and vines and gnaw the bark of trees, at times completely encircling them so that they die unless saved by bridge grafts.

Trapping and hand placement of poison baits are used to control pocket gophers in small areas and for clean up after large scale operations (50 acres or more). Larger areas must be protected by use of mechanized equipment which properly places the control agent and can hit a large area at once. It is not recommended that high-level strychnine baits be used for hand-baiting methods of controlling gophers or for any purpose other than use in mechanical gopher-bait applicator, due to the hazardous nature of strychnine.

For more information on Pocket Gopher control, contact your Extension Agent or Bait Manufacturer.

Hang Em High · The Verminator
Contact

ALL AMERICAN AG
16441 HWY 12
TOUCHET, WA 99360
theverminator@allamag.com

(509) 520-4055 SALES
(509) 394-2910 MESSAGE
(509) 394-2232 FAX

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