| Show THE PREDATORY PESTS what with an occasional earthquake cyclones abundant cholera threatened all kintis kinds of accidents continuous and a sp special e ajai ojai session of congress discussing 9 the finan financing cini shori shortages ages the people would seem to be well enough stocked with misfortunes without the arev drev prevail a 11 ing incursion of the seventeen year locusts but they are upon the land eight states reporting them as out in full force the department of agriculture at washington as in duty bound is sending circulars broadcast regarding the pests and asking information in regard to them but the genus locust has no DO respect whatever for the present administration or anything else save its insatiable appetite and continues to t spread and devour in spite of the circulars the information gained may however be put to good use hereafter we are advised that there are twenty two known broods of them which turn up in different years in various sections of the country but their respective territories overlap to seme ome extent each brood bo however wever cornea out of the ground only once in seventeen years the intervals are absolutely regular one brood has been under observation since 1815 1814 and it jib possible to make with absolute certainty such a prediction as that the locusts will appear at a given place in BOU A D the creatures are pronounced to be not lo out I at all but cicadas cicada they are good to eat according to toe the tes testimony of the division of entomology at washington exports ex ports attached to that bureau experimented with them some years ago they tried them in plain stew in thick milk stow stew and broiled the insects were collected from trees as they emerged from the chrysalis after soaking in IB cold water over night they were cooked for breakfast it was found that they imparted a distinct and agreeable flavor to the stew but were ware not palatable themselves they were best fried lu in batter when they suggested sh rimps they are not likely to become popular as a omes tible in utah whatever ais distinction they may attain to elsewhere in tact fact it would be hard bard to designate a place here where they would be wel corned unless there were a brisk fire fink prevailing there at the time it in IB said eaid that during the first few years of its all too long life the eneada cicada does doea not aa a general thing burrow deeper in the ground than two feet later on it becomes more energetic and V venturesome and has been found low down as twenty feet when 1 ita urn as hibernating period is drawing to a close it starts upward quite slowly a am when the time lime fur for comes it to co appe appear it is discovered quite close to the BUT bur face under logs logo and stones stone seena lioi awaiting the opportune momen when that moment comes the orea crea tures swarm out in vast numbers and scramble over the ground to the near devir est eat trees if there is an isolated tres trani a strange phenomenon is exhibited exhibit all odthe of the insects in its neighborhood led by a remarkable instinct make inake ml many bee hues flues toward it Con convere verg so trig ing to this central point they up the trunk in a steady stream df 11 verging merging again belong along the branches the sight is pronounced one djs not easily forgotten ul 1 the cicadas begin to come out sunse sunset thlu abiu continue until mid mal ni s when the insect has attached itself comfort comfortably bly tj a twin twig or leat leal its akl begins to split down dow n the ra middle iddle i lt takes from twenty minutes to an hour hoult tor for the animal to extricate itself fante faolu its discarded shell the transform ii tion completed it appears as a beaution creature with gauzy wings at tivies alm they will swarm on a tree in such vast cumbers as to break down the brancha so it to is said we never saw BMW it done the people of utah or th those ose who were here in the ea earlier alier days know A good deal of the cricket 1 locust locus tand and etc cicada a d a by reason creaso U of b batta itt pee and alid trying experience it is un doubli euly the ease that the destroyers belorit belof to the same lamme family and seem to have 6 common object to harass the humak humah family aney have not beer been so had here of late but have done considerS 1 able damage especially to lucern tafak your year bind and without any disposition toil to create alarm we may state th that a t thep are at present so plentiful in seme me of nf f i the higher valleys and on the zenobea bench as to cause among residents of thosa tho r localities a genuine fear that next ye they promise to be out I 1 in a full force |
