The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-11-27
aud in tbn darkness saw its whiteness
lifted to the girls lips.
Soon Mt Circleville NIL knew OF Linly's
engagement, and this is the way it was.
The tirasshoppcr and her Labors.

A Western editor, who has visited
the grasshopper stricken region of
northern Iowa md in Minnesota, says
We have taken square inch OF dirt
from the ground, and found nearly q
thousand glasshopper eggs, each one Of
which is dead sure to hatch out. Grass
hopper eggs differ from hens eggs in
tho circumstance that they never spoil.
Tho Oldest inhabitaut cannot remember
Of single grasshopper egg that never
failed 10 connect. f.....
The process by which grasshoppers
deposit their eggs may be interesting to
those who have never been out West to
grow up with the country, 80 We will i'm
part the information that has cost much
labor and research. Tho eggs are
found about an inch below the surface
OF the ground. The eggs arc made by
the female 'hoppers. When she feels as
though she wanted to tighten her bur.
den, she stands up on her narrative like
q dog and begins to dig n hole with her
north end. She works patiently until
she has n hole in the ground about
tho sizo OF g lead pencil, IN
inch or 80 deep. The hole is SO near
tho subsequent end Of tho hopper that
should you take her by the nap OF tho
neck to pull her out Of tho hole, she
would break in the middle before Rho
would let go. After the hole is ready the
grasshopper Rpits on her hands and lays
down her bundle, which consists Of ma-
terial for sac, which contains from
thirty to serenty.1vo eggs. She covers
up tho hole and comes out looking as il
she had been run through clothes
wringer, and with an appetite that
would shame free lunch fiend, and she
attacks anything that the he grasshop-
per has left iu the neighborhood to eat.
These eggs arc laid late in the sum-
mer, aAd they do not hatch till tue
next spring. Nothing on earth except
crushing them to powder will prevent
thoso eggs from Matching. They may be
frozen as stiiI as mackcrcl, and they
will como out all right. They may be
drowned, aud they sill live. Whom tho
proper time comes, when the granger is
looking the other way, and the sun bo.
gins to shine for all, tho eggs open, and
out comes a tiny grasshoppar, with his
mouth open, and he begins to eat in a
minute, and keeps It up till death re-
licyes him. He will eat anything that
grows, and the larger he gets the more
he will ent. After a few hours foolinE
around on the ground, tho young grlss-
hopper gets on o bush or stalk, hangs on
by his feet, and his wings begin to un-
fold, and in ten minutes he is ready to
fly, when he goes up in the air, winks at
tie farmer with ono eye, aud goes to
harvesting without money and without
price.
1t has been decided that tho best way
to destroy grasshoppers is to wait till
spring, when he matches out and when
be comes out OF the egg, to burn every
living thing on tho prairie. With this
object in view tho farmers are saving the
grass aud everything that will burn, aud
next spring the experiment will be tried,
und the salvation Of Minnesota aud SOW
eral other States depends upon the sue
cess Of tho experiment. So fearful are
farmers that fires will be started this fall
that men are kept constantly on the
watch to prevent fires, and should my
nan start lre there now the people
would bo so enraged that they would
shoot hin. as quick as they would q
murderer.