Show KILL THE grasshoppers now is the time to kill the gars shoppers farmers now have ample time to devote to the grasshoppers their fall work is not completed until they have taken steps to protect themselves from a grasshopper outbreak next year judging from their great number and wide distri year it is very probable that they will be suf sufficiently ficie nt numerous to entirely destroy some of the crops next year the easiest way to control them isto to destroy their eggs and that can best be done now the egg laying for this season has been completed the egg pods each containing from awen ty five to fifty eggs have been deposited deposit edin in dry hard ground orf enditch on ditch banks along the fences in corners in the roads roada and lanes in old alfalfa fields and such places ground which has been kept loose by frequent cultivation heavily pasture and thick stands of alfalfa will be almost free of eggs |