| Show FIGHTING TUB grasshoppers I 1 THE tue grasshoppers are growing rapidly in siz biz size bize e of their numbers little need be said their destructive ravages are too well known and the question is h how 0 W to prevent n t tho those 8 e ravages or limit them while the insects are young they travel and jump tender vegetation falls before them and by getting on to the bark of trees they make their thein way up and devour the foliage A good many people having become ened with the immense numbers of the insects have almost given up the contest of fighting them and appear only ambitious to save their arees frees rees if that is possible we think the fight should not be given up jf if a hundred come to the funeral of every one onel killed that hundred existed before and there Is one less this season by the killing with the prospect of sixty or a hundred less next season suppose the present number were increased fifty fold by hatching out their full quantity of eggs egg 8 next season what would be the result continue to destroy them and there will be the fewer to eat up vegetation this season and the fewer should they remain and hatch out another season but to preserve the trees some girdle the trunks with tar and some with axle grease soft soap will do as well I 1 as elther either or br anything they will not go through and this must cover a space which they cannot well jump over vir dr it is gald said will kill the trees bro hullinger from Cotton cottonwood wood showed shoved us an idea of keeping them from getting on to tp trees before their wings grow that was the beat we have seen he took a few of paper pasted them together hollowed the centre and put it close around the trunk of a tree like a lamp shade with the outside and wide edge downwards as alam a lamp shade is suspended the insects cou con could d get u up p to it but could not get over it nor non jump averit for when they jumped against itchey it they fell to the ground the plan is worth giving a wide trial to when they get wings and fly the following plan for driving them away is spoken of highly make piles of sage brush or anything that will burn and throw up plenty of smoke where they are numerous bet set fire to the piles and when they commence to burn scatter sulphur over them the sulphurous smoke is said to drive them away entirely from its neighborhood this is also worth trying and meantime we would recommend the fight against them to be vigorously and persistently waged bro w was I 1 is appointed d a committee of on one e last week to s lap tt the ie extirpation atia n af odthe th e grasshoppers on the five acre lots and ind ther the people were requested to turn out fur that purpose under his hiss direction we understand their labors have been productive of much good which is highly encouraging cou raging |
