Show 7 HOT A AFTER TER TilE THE HOPPERS j mow low the Government Will late a ej rhe ep Pest st 1 wi g i is a a. a Washington Lashington r dispatch to the tho Tribune S 'S Senators and members of of- of Con Con- gres gres- are aie receiving receiving- r many letters regarding a plague a-plague- of grasshoppers pers which seems to bo be e pre prevalent in the West Vest and Southwest South west Tho The Thoc Thes c s States which seems seems to be most j effected ef- ef are aie Nebraska sI r Wyoming mi g und nd Col Colorada One correspondent lent dent from North Platte Neb Nob fields are fields ali alive w the are r e T The Tho Government is doing Pg what what vh t i it to can to mitigate gato the misfortune i f and d to that tha end is l' l adopting adopting I a n now new w and very VelY ery extraordinary extraordinary extra- extra ordinary m to rid tl the e V West cst r of f this pest which annually threatens crops with ge destruction and causes ap an enormous enormous financial doss j loss Under the direction m of the entomologist entomologist en en- of the tho Agricultural do- do t that bureau burean is p putting up Up in bottles germs of the tho fungus i kind ind dold deadly y to grasshoppers rs and andis andis and is IS sending them t lo 10 o parts of this I country where damage threatens to to be particularly s severe severe yero Tho The fungus is obtained from South Africa where it has been used need with it great success recently vast vast armies armies of grasshoppers being literally liter liter- ally ally wiped out of it It is is propagated artificially by bya v a r fy ir g bit of it to a no sterilized prep preparation ration of gelatine and nd blood d serum on which the ger germs s Multiply multiply multi Multi- the cultures cul ply ply Thus prepared tures cul are ate sent bent out in glass tubes 1 lo ked with cotton and nd sealed healed with red wax each one being be ing ng enclosed in in a pasteboard Cy lin- lin del der Directions for use accompany pany jany yany the package In Colorado last summer In th there re was an outbreak of the f fun fungus us disease among grasshoppers gra and quantities of the dead insects were wei o shipped d Washington to and utilized utilized utilized ed ed here to make cul cultures A whitish hiti h threadlike growth on the tho bodies li s. s of the victim furnish furnish the I requisite germs On receiving a bottle bottlo of fu fungus gns I the fanner i is io directed directed by by byan an a accompanying accompanying ac ac- companying companying ng pr printed t d' d slip to put a number IlI er of live grasshoppers in a n ar I r woo wooden en box together with wit with a B portion portion portion por por- tion of the germ material I They will quickly become infected in v. v when hen he may liberate all allbut allbut but half halt a i dozen or or orso so The These e wh when n dead will serve to disease to other ther living grasshoppers grasshopper r ers placed e in q box for th that t purpose As A's fast fait as they I are re infected the the hoppers are are to to tobe i ale be e s set t fre free in th the fields t to distri distribute r j b bate bute e the pl plague gue among among mong their fellows This Thia is a novel and t very ery interi inter- inter I i k i bf f J 1 iY Y va vai f. f Y A U I esting way of treating this pert perI per per- t I problem and has been heen us used d' d with vitti great J success s and abd and the Department De De- p r o of Agricultural f is pro- pro pared to s stand send nd out bottles of this this' fungus to all th those se who apply for forthe forthe forthe the same game |