The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-05-31
ENterminatins GrasshOppers.
A correspondent of the Sioux City
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youvnH writes to that paper:
The 'hoppers are not Matching gem
orally on fall blowing, and the opin-
ion is that fall plowing destroys their
eggs. Roadsides and breaking that
was not turned last fall seem to pro-
duce the largest amount Of 'hoppers
They are not present every where, only
working in spots, though we have
heard of few instances where they
came from last years breaking and
have nearly ruined the adjacent small
grain. Several modes of destroying
them are in use. Some are working
very successfully by digging trenches
ahead of the 'hoppers and directly in
their path, allowing them to stop IA
little in their wild career then by
sprinkling hay or straw in the ditch
and setting ii on fire suddenly eremate
the voracious appetite. Others scatter
straw near their scenes of operations,
and at night the little fellows, liking
good place to roost, will gather on
the straw very thick, when little fire
put to the straw will turn them to
ashes.
had IA long pan made of sheet iron
about ten feet long. II is made of iron
that is thirty inches wide, and has ten
inches turned up for back, the front
being left nearly straight, with the
ends closed. 1t is II long scoop shovel.
Laid a cloth on il saturated with coal
oil, hitched IA horse to ii about ten feet
ahead. The little 'hoppers would jump
when ii came along and fall back in
the pan, but very soon after they strike
the coal oil forever loose their appetite
1t is necessary to fasten the sheet iron
to a board or something to stitfen it,.
| understand that strychnine or Paris
green will not kill them. II any one
knows TO the contrary would like to
hear. Would say that the pan works
well and il worth making and using
Nothing that have heard of kills all
of them, but with work and attention
the pan will save the grain where it is
properly used.
The JoUnal editorially says upon
the same subject:
The United States chronological
commission has issued its first bulle-
tin, the subject being "Destruction of
the Untledged Locusts.n The recon-
mendations comprise those discussed
at the meeting of the Governors of the
Western States at Omaha last fall, to-
gether with some new ones which
subsequent experience has suggested.
Flowing under with narrowing and
rolling is emphasized for such places
as have not yet hatched. The plant
ing of early-ripening corn, beans,
peas, potatoes, etc, is urged. Driving
into winrows or piles of hay and straw
mornings and evenings, which are TO
be afterwards burnt, is the method
first mentioned for destruction of
young 'hoppers; also, beating with
fiattened implements, such as wooden
shovels and the like; ditching is the
chief reliance, the commission saying
that, "We have not IA doubt that with
proper and systematic ditching early
in the season nearly everything can
be saved;' nets, seines, and traps of
various kinds are described and rec
commended: suggestions for the pro-
lection of fruit trees are given, the
vent the insects from climbing
whitewashing the trunks of the
perpendicular, or by fitting around
lltIIi IL slllp vi tll 81 dS W lIitht
dam which the 'hoppers connot pass;
concerted action in the burning of
prairie grass is also recomcnded the
preservation of wild insect eating
birds and the raising of poultry and
hogs is looked upon as one OF the
most etfectual methods of ridding a
section of the young pests, rs it both
destroys and utilizes them. As ad-
denda tothis bulletin, a description is
given of the arrangement recently
described by a Kansas correspondent
of the Journai, for using Kerosene for
destruction. We believe that in many
places this will be the most effective
means that can be urged, for it seems
an easy matter to either get most of
the insects into kerosene or get kero-
sene upon them; and single drop Of
the fluid is all that juvenile grass
hopper needs, as has been demonstrate
ed by many in this vicinity who have
tried it. If you have patches of the
pests of which you wish to get rid,
give them a touch of coal oil and il
will kill a large proportion, and any
other means which will make an APP
plication of the oil, however minute,
to their bodies is said to keel them
over.