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Show GRASSHOPPERS INJURE TREES Foliage Is Often Completely Devoured and Serious Harm Results Us Poison Bait. During seasons of heavy grasshopper grasshop-per Infestation, orchard and nursery trees are sure to suffer where the grasshoppers are permitted to migrate from adjoining pastures, meadows or other crops. There are three common species of grasshoppers which do this damage, the red-legged, differential and two-lived. Where Injury occurs I : P : T I A l II 1 i-Hrf Young Hoppers Feeding. It Is usually soon after hay harvest The foliage is often completely devoured de-voured and serious injury may result where the hungry grasshoppers attempt at-tempt to appease their appetites further fur-ther by gnawing the bark from the twigs and even the trunks of small trees. Where grasshoppers are abundant on crops near the orchard or nursery one should take precautions to prevent trouble. Poison bran bait sown broadcast broad-cast in infested meadows and other crops when the hoppers are yet small will rid the community of the pest. Poison bran bait is prepared by mixing mix-ing dry 50 pounds of bran and two pounds of white arsenic or paris green and moistening this with about eight gallons of water with which are mixed four quarts of cheap sorghum and the juice and chopped-up rinds of six lemons. lem-ons. Sow this at daybreak so the hoppers hop-pers will get It for breakfast while yet moist and attractive. Where this precaution Is not taken and the hoppers hop-pers are feeding on the foliage spray the trees heavily with an arsenate of lead solution. |