Garland City Globe | 1919-07-26 | Page 2 | Few Grasshoppers Found

Few Grasshoppers Found. This seems to be nn off year for grasshoppers, according to entomolo-gists entomolo-gists of the United States department of agriculture, who recently inado u survey of the grasshopper situation. A cnmparatlvelj ntunll number of eggs were deposit! last full, probably 'no to parasitic Injects having killed uuvt of tho hoppers before that tlmo. Kx-cept Kx-cept In n few counties mentioned, fully 85 per cent of tho eggs that wero deposited de-posited hnvo slnco been destroyed by Insects that feed on them. The suck-ess of the uso of poisoned bait was ulso noticed by tho entomologists. Very few eggs could bo found on Ufa tnrmi "TCircnTTroTsoTic'tr" bTnnwrt3 asnrrntfr summer, but on other farms nearby thu eggs wero usually abundant. This difference dif-ference was so great ns to be notlco-ublo notlco-ublo even in adjacent Qeldr,