The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28
KANSAS FARNsaNG.

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Grasshoppers won't eat castor
beans.
If chinch bugs are in your wheat
destroy them as follows:
Plow about six rounds, to enclose
the wheat, and plant corn. Harrow
and drill it so that the stalks will
stand very close. 1t will be up in
fine condition for the bugs when
the wheat is cut, and they will leaYe
the wheat for the corn. AS soon as
the corn is full of them, scatter old
hay or straw on ii, aud burn them
all mp. Try it.
DESTROYING GRAssHoPPERs.-
are pretty we'll convinced that the
plan of digging pits and trenches
and driving them i'll is the most
successful. A trench may be dug
fifteen inches deep, a foot wide and
seven or eight feet long. Then the
grasshoppers for quite a distance
around can be driven into it. Leave
the trench open and more can be
driven in at another time. The 9TH
err day we saw hole about twenty
inches square, which had been dug
near a fence, down alongside of
which the grasshoppers were tray
cling. Boards were run out from
the hole like wings. The grasshop-
pers without being driven, had
marched into this pit until there
were fourteen inches of solid grass
hoppers in it.-Troy Republican.
a Doniphan county farmer, d. o.
Driscoll, is fattening his hogs on
grasshoppers and bran, and catches
the beasts as follows:
He takes piece of cloth and
some light sticks, about yard long,
with which he makes what he calls
a right angle triangle, sort of sack,
into the head of which he fastens
barrel hoop, to hold the mouth of
the sack open. With this in hand
he goes to the field, or where the
grass hoppers have congregated, and
holding the msuth of the sack few
inches from the ground, he starts
on fast walk through the ranks of
of the grasshoppers. AS he passes
along of course the little, wingless
pests hop up to get out of the way,
and are caught in the open mouth
of the sack. When he gets a sack
full, he empties it into a barrel,
partly filled with water, and after a
while he puts in some bran, stirs it
all up well together, making what
we would call a grasshopper bran
mash, and feeds it to his hogs.
Col. j. B. Nipp, of COwley coun-
ty, has made preparations to irri-
gate his land this season should it
prove to be dry again.
The Usage City Free Press says
that strawberries, which were not
mulched last fall, are badly heaved
and winter killed.
Last week Arch Shaw and Hiram
Mitchell, of johnson county, ship
ped to st. Louis 40 head OF native
steers, 3 and 4 years old, averaging
1 GOO pounds each. They will get
paying prices for such stock.
Fred Kramer of Wyandotte. says
the way to stop grasshoppers is to
scatter ground gypsum, lime or ash
es, on the crops, at night, so that
the dew will dampen it,. Keep cat
tie away till after good rain. The
is best, and if one dose is |
not enough, repeat it.
Missourians and Kentuckians say
that Kansas is natural blue grass |
State, and the best way to SOW it is |
TO scatter it on the prairie, where |
cattle are pasturiBg la the spring or
fall of u wet season. 1t needs /
and close feeding aud the |
protection Of prairie grass from the |
sun in order TO get set. Blue grass |
let alone and allowed To go to seed |
win become so thick and heavy |
that the tops fall over and decay, |
which loosens the soil so much that |
it runs itself out.
The plpcky Brown county farm
ers are actively fighting the Iegions
Of grasshoppers that have appeared |
there. Long trenches have been
dag, aud men, women and children
lay aside all other work, and with |
hrooms, brush, and ropes are lriv-