| Show KILL THE HOPPERS WHILE THEY ARE YOUNG reader header arces all aliers to wok together to kill tile hoppens vol loinal nal express elpi ess 1 I am inclosing you for killings kil lingl gi a sent mo me by U S dep department artilli lilt cf agriculture which pleasa publish for the benefit of your many r reao ac nation matlon read ell 13 a it way may be venial people pay their tithing ilig bettor than ve nie and escape tho the post but hom indications ue e 0 ille o going to have tho the fight of our lives in the resor reservation unless all work together and kill the j while they aio young the following is in official and wo we beg of evry ev ey ry beadet of tile the express to cut it out and save rave it foor quick le ference in tile the event of a grasshopper invasion Inva aion respectfully W J JACKSON government crop reporter gral grasshopper ninety five per cent or of grasshoppers attacking crops in widely different parts of the country were killed quickly and cheaply by an improvement in poison bran bait and tile criddle mixture the important change in the formula is ie to double the amount of lemons or oranges used in tile the bait and to add the these SO fruits to the griddle criddle mixture the change in the mixture is id te commended by the boril forage 1 0 top entomologists of the dopart department part ment its as A result of thorough tests conducted in now england florida california and arizona these toaty were conducted in different sections and with many diff lent varieties of grasshopper to determine if possible buhy the old formulas were only partially effective with adult grasshoppers and even i less effective with young grasshoppers and to find whether the MO fault lay with tile nip mixtures or tho way they were used the entomologists found that adding the fruit to tho the criddle mixture and increasing tho 00 amount in n tho bran bait in creassie cre assle d the attraction of tho tha balt to the grasshoppers ano I 1 led to eat it more readily it quickly developed in the now new england experiments dealing particularly with the gros grasshoppers shoppers which bavo caused canoed groat great losses periodically in he flie Meirl mac and connecticut valleys that it was wan essential that the baits should not dry out before the grasshoppers had been attracted atti acted to them and eaten enough of ahr m to be killed it war waa found that the baits should bo be put in the fields in the early carly morning before sunrise so that the insects could get at efrom as soon as they began to feed this measure when the amount of citrus fruit juice was doubled in the poison bran bait or this fruit uddo d to the criddle mixture resulted in tile the destruction ot of 96 95 per cent of the grasshoppers at an empenio of 7 to 13 cents per acre in florida where the baits were used at least 60 pol pel cent of the grasshoppers d fed linh 1 li hours houri and glass toppers which wore were caged utter having fed on the bait all died in 48 hours in california the poison bran bait with six lemons ct cf each 26 pounds 0 f bliku two quarts of cheap and three gallons of water wari wan used and protected al alfalfa falto fields with plants eighteen inches high where grasshoppers were feeding de destrie ively along the edges of the field the entomologist stationed hero here found that abfal ap meal was about equal to wheat bran in value and could be used where it is c easier or cheaper to obtain in arizona tho the forage clo cio entomologists substituted sorghum molasses for ordinary ordin ordina aly ity molasses and used about half tho the quantity of hatot but with double the usual amount of citrus fruit here too 95 per cent of old and grasshoppers were killed in arzona arizona the investigator alro reported that it was import tint to get the baits to tile tho grasshoppers in moist condition now formulas for or anin halt dull and criddle mixture tho the criddle as modified for af use e in killing hilling young grasshoppers pets Is as follows 50 60 pounds frash borso drop one pound pat pails is green one pound salt rait thieo oranges finely lk round ordinarily no fruit at all is used bod in the criddle mixture and but three fruits to tilt 26 25 pounds of bran applied to two acles 80 per cent olf of hoppers were killed with OB as high alg h as dead young grasshoppers nymphs to the square foot just junt after the hoppers had matured in mew N ew farm of approximately 30 acres was treated with pounds of the criddle and at least 80 por per cent of the hoppers were killed at it a cost of 6 aa cents per acre the poison bran bait a 4 a 0 modified with the especial object of killing young as well vell as aa old pein I 1 prepared as follows twenty five pounds wheat bron one pound paris gheen two quarts cheap Bea or six oranges or lemons lemona thoroughly mix together aliv th bran and paris green in an all ordinary washtub or other vessel into a separate recep bacle containing the molasses or squeeze the juices of the fruit chop up finely the skin and pulp of the fruit and add to the molasses Dilute with throe three gallons of water and anft with the bran add enough moi met water to bring the whole to a stiff dough 0 the bait baft should be sown broadcast early in the morn tub before sunrise in strips one lod iod anait evoi the area to be treated the most sat method of distributing the bait is to now it from the rear end of a buggy driven at a rapid gait |
