Show ARE YOU FIGHTING THE grasshoppers in many places the gras pers are so bad in the grain that they have taken at least abne one 1 third of the crop damage can I 1 bo be redi reduced iced very materially if afi everyone will fight them both in ini the alfalfa fields and the grain fields the catcher is the most effect tive way of fighting them in the alfalfa fields and it may be used with good results in grain even though it has started to head out some times they are used with excellent results in grain i which is almost ripe one of the farmers caught sixteen bushels in a small grain patch by using a catcher it took but an hour and a half to catch this amount that hour and a half practically freed that patch from hoppers after grain becomes too ripe and the straw is so brittle that a catcher cannot be used the hoppers may be controlled by the use of poison bran mash or the use use of the criddle mixture the bran mash is made by mixing mix one pound of paris pans green with twenty pounds of bran braai this is done while dry two gallons of water in which three oranges or lemons are cut up fine and two quarts of molasses or syrup the bran is dampened with this solution theoran The bran is sown just after daylight in the morning broadcast among the grain the criddle mixture consists of one pound of paris earls green and one pound of table salt mixed with a half barrel of fresh horse droppings in case dry manure manur is the only kind at hand it may be dampened with water and used the same as the other in this me case the salt way may be dissolved in the water before using do not think that a disease is going to come and control them for us get busy and fight them to protect your grain crops you owe it to your neighbors to help control the hoppers if not steps are taken many more of the crops will be lost yours very truly M L harris |