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Show GRASSHOPPER FIGHT BEING- PROSECUTED DELTA. July H. The fight against sraeshopper and other crop pests iu this community la now being pressed with ajreat determination by th farmer and good resu Us a r reported from a vera! section that have been badly Infected. In addition to th us of po.son. splendid splen-did result t ar being obtained by using trap to catch th hopper, and th pets In thla way ar being bagged In larg quantities. M. J. I'ace, who haa forty Stores near tlta In a high state of mil-ti mil-ti vat Ion. re porta that he haa thirty bushels of grasshoppers which ha caught with traps on hla farm. For th past fsw days tha pests hava been quitting th grain fields which ar nearly rip ta attack tha alfalfa, tha beets and tha gardens. W. I. Allred reports thst In on night a great army f tha hoppora earns out of an adjoining wheat field and literally devoured vry freon twig In hla gaxden, which had itherto teen la a moat flounahlng con-itioa, con-itioa, v ' |