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Show GRASSHOPPERS. MAYTI VVT- A. B1U0A.UK OF CHICKENS CHICK-ENS INTO THE FIELO. u BEING COUOnX WITH FIRE AND ,.- - - . WATliU ' About' a 'month 'ago the - citixen of Hpliraiin and Manti begun to discover that a great quantity of grasshopper esgs had been' laid in the bottom lands between, be-tween, and west of the two ' towns. They were thought at lhal time to he the ordinary meadow grasshopper and the discoveiv created no alarm. About the fiisi ol May tiiey began hatching out. and whole leu act lots .were alive with a . tine brown mass, that , . resembled living sand, and so thick that they almost al-most obscuied the sod. Then, the discovery dis-covery was made by some of the older and mote experienced of our farmers that the insect was ol the "warrior" variety, or as they are more commonly called, the "aunv grasshopper," Calls were immediately issued . by leading citizens to come out and assist in the woik ol desi ruction, but was not so well responded to as it should have heen. The fight, however, wasmatigura-ted wasmatigura-ted immediately after the discovery of the nature of the unwttcome and voracious vora-cious guest and has been kept tip ever since, and millions upon mil lions have been destroyed. !. Tue methods ol waiefare are .various. If loose straw is piled on the ground in 'advance of the' .marching armies who always gVin one directioh-Hhey will fill it so full that the' sttaw can scarcely be seen, tins is tiien set on hie. and tliev are destroyed; but a long line of wood fire kept steadily burning i much more efficient, as their habit of marching straight along, is never changed for any obstacle; and of their own volition, they go straight into the fire, accelerated by ihe duvets behind. " Square sided holes Mere dug and m.llions driven into them and buried, the water ditches also held then shate of slain. -- Whereverjj-the water flodedthe land the eggs failed to hatch, and the entire army might have been ' drowned if the surplus water bad beet) applied t season. There has- always been a theory by scientific men that the unerring march of the "atinv grasshoppers," was the result of an unchangeable law of their -natuie' to travel always iu one duectiou, field or' no field; but it meets refutation by ihe fact that ol those hoppers hatched Oil the oanks ol the Sanpitch, those on the east bank traveled east and those on the west bank traveled west, the 'mutable 'muta-ble law of their intuits" lead.ng them straight to the gtain. However tftsy "never turn around and Very " seldom swetve lo the rht or left. Iu the line of their march tl is as if swept by a scorch-tug scorch-tug Maine, Old then and boss, , women aud children chil-dren have all been out assisting hi the woikwl destruction, ai.d the ca!s loi help ate still imperative. Manti' hBjtliiee thousand cu'keus In their north field aud they are also doing gook set vice. Crave apprehension exists lur the crops next year. :, .5 : - - |