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Show PROTECTING YOUNG ORCHARDS rg;; h, Very Bovero losses haYo been sustained sus-tained by allowing grasshoppers to mlgrnto into young orchards nfter adjacent crops havo been cut states Dr. E. D. Hall of tho Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural Collcgo In Bullotln No. 13S on "How to Control tho Grasshoppers." Even whero there is a crop of beets or potntoes growing between tho trees they will often strip tho trees of leaves and glrdlo tho smaller limbs, killing or badly stunting tho trees. Tho reason the trees aro damaged so badty Is becauso tho hoppers roost In them at night and then feed there for somo ,tluio In tho morning beforo Jump lng down. Often tho damago is dono beforo it Is realized. Hundreds of acres of young trees havo been destroyed de-stroyed In this way, whero a very little lit-tle work wonhl havo provented any serious dnmnge. Vigorous measures should bo taken to elimlnato tho hoppers. hop-pers. Tho grasshopper catcher should bo run up and down between tho rows, nnd poisoned bran mash I vown whorovor tho hoppers occur. A j boy with a lint pnddlo enn knock tflo mnHshoppers out of ten acre's of j trees bo.. ion tho tlmo they go to 1 moot nnd dnrk. Onco driven out at that tlmo of night thuy will not como bn:k again. A still hotter method Is ' to tnko n barrel hoop, put it In tho I mouth of a gunny sack, tie a rake hniullo across this and hold it on ono sldo of the treo nnd knock tho ho- pcrs off Into this. ' A fow hours spent In this wny will often snvo n nluabe crchnrd from on tiro destruction. nnd which Forves only to offend the eyo. |