Show nephis war on the grasshoppers little chicago must be having quite a time with the grasshoppers which from all accounts are thickly spread over that district of country the last issue of the ensign says every day this week there has been a large number of men and boys busily and energetically employed at the west meadows digging ditches and holes and performing other labor to exterminate the grasshopper pest the grasshoppers are exceedingly numerous in fact they cover a vast urea of ground as thick as they conveniently sit but being located as they are in one district and having to travel eastward to set to the grain fields the chances are favorable that the majority of them will be destroyed before great damage is done of course the hay crop is ruined but lucern straw and other fodder will be plentiful A deep ditch extending north and south about three miles long five feet wide at the bottom and feet at the top is being dugas well as many holes sheep are driven backwards and forwards across the meadows the grasshoppers they do not kill go and are driven into the ditch and holes and are there buried the grasshoppers continue to come from the west mountains however and the fight will have to be kept up vigorously |