Show ays GROW PAT FAT ON grasshoppers in many places young fruit trees have been seriously injured or killed by grasshoppers it has been found by in southern new meaco that or turkeys will keep twenty five or thirty acres planted to fruit trees alfalfa wheat and corn practically free from grasshoppers even though there may have been a great many of these in sects in previous years for best results with this method it is necessary to have poultry fencing around the place though the larger fowls are sometimes Bome times herded in badly infested fields in summer the turice turkeys ys seem to care for littek else elfie if they can ret plenty of grasshoppers to eat and instead of being a pest the insects may be converted into profitable meat the fowls will probably be moie or less in the way in irrigating and may do some damage to growing gronning crops but with fairly gool good management it Is believed that the returns from their sale eale should consider considerably considerably abl more than offset such damage |