The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-09-05

Church is the verdict of the Christian
world, and henceforth there is only
honor and love for Beecher and lasting
contempt and inf;,my for Tilton and
MOultOn.
GRASSHOPPERS.
Hon. to Destroy them and Prerent their
R0rugcs.
j. w. Taylor, U. S. Consul at Win
nepeg, has prepared Il very able and in
teresting paper Oh Grasshoppers which
appears in the Munito1idn of that place,
and from which we extract the follow
ing upon the methods adopted for pre-
venting their rayages and destroying
them:
HUMAN AGENCIES AGAINST FULL
GROWN LOCUsTS.
Smudyes.-Mr. Taylor quotes a letter
to the New York Herald, in which the
smoking out process employed in Asia
and Africa is given, which closes us
follows:
LET our settlers III the Northwest
initiate their uncivilized fellow suffer-
erS Of Asia and Africa. Let them kin
die brisk fires early in the morning, at
least one hour before sunrise, all around
their farms or fields, or If that he i'm
possible, then kindle them all along
that side in the direction Of which they
expect the invasion OF the locusts.-
The fires should not he more than 100
yards apart-the closer the BETTER
Coal tar, ha]f-dried peat, or still less eX-
pensive matter, such as grass, sod, wet
straw, green brushwood, reeds, cattle
dung, bones, horns and hoofs Of dead
animals, refuse leather and hides, cast
off shoes and rags-in fact, anything
that will create dense sitting smoke,
and is at the same time inexpensive,
should be thrown into the fires, and
i rigorous fumigatiOn should be kept
up from sunrise to sunset, or as long as
the locusts are on the Wing.''
R0plnJ the FieldS.-A correspondent
of the New York Tribune, describing
the yisitations OF 1873 in southwestern
Minnesota, says: lone of the most
effectual means employed was to rope
the ields-that is, to hitch each end Of
a rope 200 feet long to a horse and drag
it over the grain"
Scooping or Netting.-The following
suggestions may have value: "Attach
together two sheets, forming sort of
bag, and fasten to 4 cross pole to per-
NIT the locusts to enter the bag, so that
two men can take hold Of the two ends
of the pole and draw it rapidly along
the grain. From these two ends extend
two braces to the back knot of the sack,
in order that the hind end of the app;i-
ratus may he held as high as possible
from the ground, SO as not to break
the grain with the knot. With this ap-
paratus sweep the fields at night or on
wet days, when the locusts are perched
quietly on the grain, in such Il manner
that the striking of the ears against the
edge OF the sheet will shake off the To-
Gusts into the lag. Bullying out with
the pressure of the air. the insect will
not escape, and can be destroyed by
.plunging into hot water.''
HOW TO DESTROY THE EGGS AND
NINGLESS LOCUsTS.
But the practical question now is
how to destroy the larvp, or the just
hatched insect next spring? On this
important point all testimony unites i'll
the Importance Of
Deep Ploughiny.-The California Far
mer OF July 5, 1855, says: 'When the
soil is ploughed deep and early they do
not make such ravages.''
A planter in Texas wrote as follows
i'll 1867, to the Department of Agricul-
ture at Washington las soon as the
grasshopper has laid it's eggs the plant
ers plough their fields and turn the soil
over SO that the eggs will be crushed,
and thus DESTROY the SDrnr crOO Of
grasshoppers. This experiment has
been made in small spots of ground
where myriads Of eggs were deposited,
and not Il grasshopper came from I'M
der the layer of soil that covered the
eggs"
The Asiatic traveller, Locher, says on
this point: deep ploughing, with a
view to crush the eggs under the weight
Of the soil turned upo1 them, is un-
doubtedly recommendable, while pigs
and poultry allowed to roam over the
plowed fields would greatly assist in
the determination of these locusts in
embryo"
Prairie Ftres.-As to the great unoc-
cupled pralries adjoining the settle
ments OF Manitoba, they should not be
burned this autumn. But next spring
when the young grasshoppers are yet
wingless and the grass dry, set fire to
it by concert between PAL ishes and as
much rs possible in circles, so that the
insects cannot escape from the ring of
fire but be driven by the heat and
smoke into the centre, where they will
eventually perish in the flames.
MENNONITE EXPERIENCE.
l nave before me a paper translated
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