Roosevelt Standard | 1919-12-10 | Page 2 | Grasshoppers next Season

grasshoppers NEXT SEASON killing by poisoning prid nd plowing are most effective ways of guarding 1920 crop each female grasshopper lays from SO 80 to eggs in ill clusters of 40 to 80 in small holes about 1 IA inches below the surface of the ground mr stewart lockwood entomologist for tile the north dakota agricultural college says that it if these eggs are arc allowed t to idich hatch next nest years crops are in serious danger ile he states that killing by poisoning and plowing are the two most effective ways of safeguarding the 1920 crop this year it was found that very few if any grasshoppers hatched out on plowed land sixty per cent of the hoppers came from roadsides fence rows flax stubble land and 40 per cent from land that was into crop the fall of 1918