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Show Film Shows Control of the Grasshopper Government Picture Shows Methods of Fighting Insect. (Prepare'.! by th- t"r.i'-.l St:t!e3 Lopnr::r.rr.t of A: i iL- j::u: e. ) "Hoppers," a tiim dealing will) grasshopper grass-hopper control, particularly in the. western states, has just been completed com-pleted by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. This picture shows various methods of fighting grasshoppers, including the hopper catcher, the "balloon," and large docks of turkeys, but particular stress is laid upon the poisoned bait method of killing hoppers, and upon thorough plowing and harrowing of fields for destroying hopper eggs. Scenes illustrative illus-trative of a community campaign, including in-cluding a big "mixing bee," constitute the body of the picture. The bureau of entomology advocates such neighborhood neigh-borhood campaigns as an effective menus of checking grasshopper infestations infes-tations in the spring and early uuni-nier. uuni-nier. Interesting features of this picture nre scenes taken on "grasshopper glacier," in Montana, where prehistoric prehis-toric hoppers are found frozen in the tee, and scenes taken In Africa showing show-ing great flights of grasshoppers such as are supposed to have figured in the Mosaic chronicle of the ITague of Locusts. The film is in two reels. It will be circulated through the film distribution distri-bution system of the Department of Agriculture and the co-operating state institutions. Copies may. be borrowed for short specified periods, or may be bought by authorized purchasers fit the laboratory charge. |