Show decided improvement in grasshopper situation there has been a decided improvement in the lie grasshopper situation in the northwestern states according to the bureau of entomology of the united states department of agriculture the loss by grasshoppers pera during the past season has been much less than that of the years 1022 1922 and 1923 splendid results have also been obtained by the entomologists of the billings mont laboratory in the control of the mormon cricket with the poisoned bran arnash and by the entomologists of the salt lake city laboratory in the control of the alfalfa weevil with arsenical dust |