Show tiie gip cip the santa barbara cal press of may discusses the grievous grasshopper question and thus proposes to dispose of the insects before they attain to destructive power it ift i ta now a well ascertained fact that grasshoppers aro arc hatched out in really insignificant patches of ground and then hen oom commence mence their blighting journey colonel hollister and others inform us that they never dever hatch batch out whore the ground la is well plowed and tilled in fact he and his kis neighbor ellwood cooper have already nearly conquered the grass grasi grasshopper hopFer stronghold ad of this region the land rec reclaimed aimed almed Is all 4 Sc ilent ellent and produces the cereals fruits and vegetables plowing and billhi tilling will always destroy them it done dono in the right time this then is what we can do with the grasshoppers nury bury them young the race will then perish and the land will not mourn their loss another method of destruction st could be applied with unfailing certainty and alad this would be effectual after they beg bei bezin begin to hatch it Is 13 by irrigating the ground with petroleum using an 0 ordinary adina sprinkling cart this would not injure t the h tj soil but would rather benefit it and the cost would not be enormous |