Show grasshoppers NEXT SEASON killing by poisoning and plowing A arc re most effective ways waya of guarding 1920 1020 crop each female grasshopper lays from so 80 to IGO eggs in clusters of 40 to 60 80 in small holes about 1 inches below the surface of tho the ground mr stewart lockwood entomologist for the north dakota agricultural college says that if these eggs are allowed to hatch next years crops are in serious danger ile iio states that killing by poisoning and plowing are tile the two most effective ways of safeguarding the 1020 crop this year it was found that very few if any grasshoppers hatched out on plowed land sixty per rent of tho the hoppers came from roadsides fence rows flax flar stubble land and 40 per cent from land that was cd into crop the fall of 1018 1918 |