The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-09
west. and in the monntain rerinn

west, anu III the mountain region.
Congress should urge organization
aud furnish means to combine and de-
story the young insects in the spring.
Through the Governor of the States
bounty might be paid per bushel for
eggs, and would be money well spent.
Organized effort should certainly be
made, and the Governors might APP
point men of knowledge this winter to
locate their breeding places and take
means to destroy them in the spring.
With microscope examination al
most any one could determine their
condition. If the winter was severe
their eggs probably wonld become
added and not much trouble ensue.
Ditching was the most valuable means,
and it should be carried out on sys-
tematic scale. We should be organ
lied in every district in the West, and
while he was not afraid OF future
evils, yet it was necessary TO act in
concert. The unfledged insect could
not travel more than four or five miles
during its brief period of five or six
weeks. He urged the steps suggested
above 10 be taken this winter, and ex-
anime the ground in their native heath
and reported. The nation owes it to
the west TO secure this information.
He insisted first Of all that the settlers
should not leave the west, las the plague
win not be annual.
Pennock Pasey read to the meeting
the recommendations of the Governor
of Minnesota, as follows:
1. Crushing by rollers, etc, and
catching them by bags and traps dur
ing mating, when by reason of their
inactive condition they may be de-
stroycd. They are in this condition
from the middle of August until cold
weather.
?. Flowing udder deeply of eggs and
thorough narrowing of bare. dry
knobs and other small, warm spots
where they are deposited, which de-
stroys their terminating power. New
breaking being favorite resort for
egg deposits, this available in the or
binary course of farm work, which
should be delayed to as late in the fall
as practicable.
8. Preserving prairie grass till spring
by means of fire guards along town
ship boundaries by plowed strips or
wide parallel burrows and the careful
burning of intervening space. The
burning Of the grass with the young
grasshoppers in the spring, is very
effectual means of wholesale destruc-
ton.
4. The placing of loose straw on or
near the Matching places, into which
the young gather from the cold in
early spring. where they may be de-
stroyed by firing the straw. To this
end straw should be carefully saved.
5. The construction of deep, narrow
bitches with deeper pits at intervals,
as defense against the approaching
young insects. In these they accumu-
late in great numbers and perish.
6. The sowing of grain in 'lands"or
strips fifty to one hundred feet wide,
leaving narrow, vacant spaces through
which to run deep burrows, and con-
struct bitches into which the young
are driven and destroyed.
Z. Catching the insects, especially
young and inactive, by such means as
experience suggests.
s. Finally, the driving of the winged
enemy from the ripening grain by pass
ing over it stretched ropes, aided by
smoke from straw and other smudges,
and by discordant noises, shrieking
and yelling, inducing their Fight.