Show protecting YOUNG OR 1 I 1 very severe losses have been sustained by allowing grasshoppers to migrate migra te into young orchards after adjacent crops have abeen cen cut states dr E D ball of the utah agricultural college in bulletin no on how to control the grasshoppers even where there is a crop of beets or potatoes growing between the trees they will often strip the trees of leaves and girdle the smaller limbs killing or badly stunting the trees the reason tile the trees are damaged so badly is because the hoppers i roost oost in them ahem at night and then feed aced there for some time in the morning I 1 before jumping down often the damage is done before it is realized hundreds of acres of young trees have been destroyed in this way where a very little work would have prevented any serious d damage vigorous mea measures should be taken to eliminate the hollers hop pere lers the grasshopper catcher should be run up and down between the rows and poisoned bran mash sown wherever the hoppers occur A boy with a flat paddle can knock the grasshoppers out of ten acres of trees between the time they go to roost roos and arid dark once driven out at that time of night they will not boirie come bick back again A still better method i is to take a barrel hoop put it in the mouth of a gunny sack tic a rake handle across this and hold it on bile one side of the tree arid and knock the hoppers off into this A few hours spent in this way will often save a valuable rr cr chard from entire destruction I 1 |