The Worthington advance., 1876-06-01
GRAESYOPPER IT,E1fN.


GeASsHoPpER ITEMS.
We.learn that the >'hoppers are quite
thick ON the place Old. S.. Law and
have eaten off lis wheat: l1:1.5o i:s..tt
Mr.. Kelly, of Elk; has had remarkable
success in burning gr:,ssli5p i5pperss, and
lias killed nearly all on his place.. He:
drives them into winrows Of straw and
then fires the straw. !, 9..!s,:9;' :.::. /:
Miles Dickey, of Elk, has made a
gallant fight on the pests and has about
conquered. He also lays winrows of
straw and drives the 'hoppers into it.
They drive like sheep. ~.
j. w. Reed has been down the road
and informs us that the *'hoppers are
exceedingly thick about Heron Lake
and Window. Farmers are fighting by
every method known to honorable war
fare. m..: = .-.
j. l.. Pride, of Grand Prairie, informs
us that there are not enough, grassl,op-
pers down there to do any noticeable
injury to crops. We predict that Grand
Prairie this year will pan out such Il
crop that they will notbe able to con-
tain it. .--':''r~ )
II. D. Winters informs us that the
grasshoppers were quite thick Oh his
place at Graham Lakes. A. few days
since they drove them into the prairie
grass and fired it, burning up, Mr.:'W.
thinks, somewhere in the neighborhood
of SO bushels. The little fools seemed
to like the fire and vie with eacn other
to get into it first,,: Mr.. W.: says that
since this wholesale cremation there
are very few left on his place. ST.:
John Haggard, of Indian Lake, brings
us the shells Or skeletons of a number
of little choppers picked up OH his place.
A few days ago they were quite lively
and thick on parts Of his farm. They
ate off two acres of beets and had just
begun to call for second course, when
suddenly they disappeared. Mr.. H. ex-
amined the ground about his beet bed
and found it literally covered with the
carcasses of dead 'hoppers. The breasts
and ''inardS" seem to be eaten out by
some other pest leaving only the shell.
"Big tleas have little fleas to bite 'cm,,
And these have Other feas and 80 AL infnitum. y
Squire N. Y. Mcdowell, of Bigelow,
informs us that most of the grasshop-
pers OH his place have been destroyed.
Many of the eggs were destroyed by
cultivating the land. He spread straw
OH some last years breaking where the
'hoppers were quite thick, drove them
into the straw and then fired it, thus
crelnatins most of those on the break
ing. A few days ago lie found those on
the rest Of the place hopping toward a
ravine where the prairie grass was still
unburned. He helped them by driving
and when they were we'll into the grass
he fired it and thus killed them by the
bushel. They were 50 thick in places
that they extinguished the fire. Mr..
Med. is bound to fight them rs long as
a hopper remains, lie was in town on
Saturday to purchase canvass out Of
which to construct sort of scoop net,
which he proposes dragging over the
fields. This net is to be saturated with
kerosene, which lie finds will kill them
readily. lie caught Il number of young
choppers and put them into a small
sack saturated with kerosene, and found
that they ''threw up the sponge" almost
as soon as they touched the sack.
The reason why the list Of young lady
committees on decoration did not ap-
pear in the ADVANCE last week was
because the names were not furnished
us, while they were given to the Ring
organ. Bell and Barber run Decoration
Day, the Fourth of July and the Cen
tennial. They are Decoratiol Day per-
soniied. They are q living, breathing
Goddess of Liberty Zone Of them in
hoop-skirts), and if the people of this
county want any Decoration Day,
Fourth Of July or anything patriotic,
let them give these men two or three
offices apiece, and then the people may
take part in Decoration Day, the Fourth
of July, ETC., subject always to the di-
rection and dictation of these office
seekers.
A farmer who brought us in some
subscribers the other day said he had
no particular reason for being. person
ally friendly to us. but he knew very
we'll that the ADVANCE was right, and
that it was fighting the fight Of the peo'
pie against ringism. Moreover, the
ADVANCE had weathered the grasslop.
per cape with the rest of the sufferers,
had always been a first rate paper, and
the people were not going to desert it.
''Our people feel," said lie, ''that it is
better to support one good paper than
two poor ones, and that if any paper is
to fail it must be the Journal.'