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Show o : Make Fall War on ; Grasshoppers Untold millions of grasshoppers , have been destroyed in the state of Utah this summer by the use of 300 tons of poisoned bait which was distributed to the farmers of the state by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture, states W. W. Henderson, entomologist of the Utah Agricultural college. ' Though we have met with success ' in saving much of our crops from the plague this summer, it would be a serious mistake to believe that our ' troubles with them are over. Had we succeeded in destroying 50 per cent of them, there are still millions left to provide a good population of grasshoppers for next year, says Mr. Henderson. Anticipating such an event, now is the time to prepare for it. This late fall season is an opportune time to deal this enemy a terrible blow before the ground freezes up and tillage is impossible. Nearly all the old grasshoppers die in the fall, but before doing so, the mother grasshopper grass-hopper conceals hundreds of eggs in capsules and hides them about an inch beneath the surface of the soil. The higher and drier elevations on the farm, unmolested canal banks, roadsides, fence rows, boundary lines and untilled spots and all such places are the areas selected for the depositing depo-siting and concealing of the egg capsules. ine iarmer may nave a utile auii-culty auii-culty in recognizing the capsules because be-cause they are so skillfully concealed. conceal-ed. They look very much like small erregular, elongated clots of earth, as big around as a pencil and an inch or so in length. If these clods are broken they will quickly be recognized. Having found the egg-laying centers, cent-ers, it is only necessary to hitch the team to the disc-harrow, spring-tooth, spring-tooth, or even the spike-tooth, and tear up the countless egg capsules concealed just under the surface. If the egg capsules aVe broken, exposed ex-posed to the surface, or buried deep in the ground, the eggs will never hatch and the next great army of grasshoppers is destroyed before it ever appears. From an hour or so to a half day of this kind of warfare will be more effective than many days spent the next summer in campaigns cam-paigns of other kinds. o |