Show I 1 grasshoppers tny they daroy fruits and vegetables on tle bench farms while in dOn conversation with benj kirkham one lay day last week we learned from the gentleman that the grasshopper plague lind had reached his big home and that they were doing much comage to crops in that neighborhood a ilis his farm is located in the extreme eastern part of the town where the foot hills catch up all the rays of tile the sun in the afternoon noon n and tais makes a very suitable abode for hoppers mr kirkham recently settled there but by his perseverance and industry has been able to make him a fine home lie ile had a fine ficie orchard started trees of all kinds and in many any kinds of small fruit such as currants grapes etc last year lie he could justly say that lie he hall had the best and largest peaches in town but now naw he says rays the grasshoppers rass are taking both gracil green all and d ripe ones upwards of worth of currants have been destroyed and all the different kinds of fruits that still remain are made unfit for market these crustaceans seem to be death on musk muskmelons melons lie ile said he had tried to drive them from his melon patch by building M fires along the margin of the patch in the evening anil and leL letting r the smoke blow over iland it and at the same time driving them off but it lias has all been work in vain some of his neighbors 7 cover their melons with dirt but the hoppers remove remove it in some way and get at the melons until recently only the people of south bountiful seemed to be bothered with them but now the bench farms of east bountiful are suffering very much from them mr kirkham says or would scarcely cover the damages that they will do him this year he has left his farm and enli sought 0 lit employment elsewhere we hope that grasshoppers will not become so numerous ind and universal as they have been here in years gone by |