Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-28 | Page 7 | Home-made Machines Roll Across Neb. as Farmers Kill Grasshoppers

made Home-made Machines Roll Across Neb as Farmers Kill Grasshoppers I GOTHENBURG Neb July 28 23 UP Huge UP-Huge Huge homemade m machines hInes known as ns bunkers rolled across Nebraska Nebraska Ne t-e. braska fields today as farmers harvested harvested har vested bushels of ot grayish yellow dev devastating grasshoppers Instead of ot the tons of or grain which th they y had hoped to reap Fighting no longer with any hope of ot saving this years year's crops crops- many farmers farmer stored their threshers and went vent ent Into action with the which scooped up the swarming Insects In insects sects from the barren fields and tossed them Into big containers At the end of or each round of QC the I fields the Insects were dumped In piles plIes to be burned There was little left for the millions of invading hop pers to destroy but farmers hoped I that by killing kUling off this years year's horde the danger of a similar Invasion next year car could be reduced The were Just one form fonn of oC defense employed to fight the millions mil lions of ot hop hoppers rs which have e swarmed the last few weeks across farms of several midwestern states destroyed one field after another In their march marchand marchand marchand and defied all efforts of ot man to stop them themOn On other farms automobiles were brought Into use Erecting a a. screen at nt the front to catch the gr grasshoppers hop pers and attaching them to batteries farmers drove through their acre acree ages electrocuting the pests