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Show I Few Grasshoppers Found. i This seems to be an off vear for i isshoppers, according to entomolo- , gists of the United States department of agriculture, who recently made a survey of the grasshopper situation compnrativelj ,mal! number of eg-s were deposit i last fall, probably w I to parasitic insects having killed' m,t ot the hoppers before that time. Ex. : . ept in a few counties mentioned felly S per cent of the eggs that were deposited de-posited have since been destroyed bv insects that feed on them. Tl'ifi sue of the use of poisoned bait w-,s also noticed by the entomologists yory few eggs could be found on the't.-m.H , where poisoned bran was used .,Si summer, but on other farms nearby ih , ,.KJrS were slmIiy abundant. This difference dif-ference was so great as to be notb- I able even in adjacent (leads. |