The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-06-02
PROPOSED eRAssHopprR CONVENTION

n iSN tase s'iiCS We puoiisHed u note
from General K. NJ. Gano suggesting
the propriety of calling convention OF
the grasshopper sufferers OF Texas, to
the end that the observations, experts
ence and conclusions of those who have
suffered from the recent visitation, may
become public property by publication.
We were at the time especially crowded
and had not the room to treat the mat
ter editorially, and so sieze the first OPP
portunity afforded us to give the sub
Ject that consideration to which, by it's
great importance to the farmers of
Texas, it is fairly entitled.
Amy subject dealing with or affecting
our agricultural future wellbeing be-
comes at once of overlapping import
ance, and should so claim the care
full attention of every influence which
has, or may acquire, the power to affect
it. The alarm attending the advent of
the grasshoppers last fall and the SUBJ
sequent Matching of the eggs this spring,
was very general, and many well in
formed farmers, who were totally with
out grasshopper experience, were CROP
ing in the dark, with many grave
apprehensions. for the very information
the convention We speak OF is designed
to furnish.
We urge upon the farmers of every
county, where the pests have rayaged,
to at once call county meeting in acs
cordance with General Gano's sugges-
tion, and appoint the proper commit
tees to gather every scrap of expert
ence, and arrange and classify it so that
the delegates to the state convention
can present it in such condensed form
as that the members can grasp its salient
points readily. and, also that should it
be deemed wise to print the informa-
ton so gathered, the matter may re-
quire little or no revision. Such con-
cert of action among farmers, as is here
suggested may prove, will indeed
prove, Of great Importance, and may re
suit in eyolvinga a general plan by which
the ravages of this destructive insect
may be curtailed in the future, if nol
entirely guarded against Nearly every
farmer we have talked with this son
has proceeded upon plan of his own.
and the degrees of success are as varied
as were the means used. Some few met
with nearly perfect success. and their
efforts shielded the young crop from se-
rious injury. it IL important that every
detail of the plans of procedure should
be widely known. Herein the unsel-
fishness of the farmer il strongly con.
ttrasted with other professions and pur
suits. No letters patent. nor costly
mystery is sought, to hide from his
brethren the discoveries he has made
The only anxiety hefeels Is to spread
the information broadcast, to theend
that all may reap the advantage Of hi
own sowing elass
As Dallas is the geographical centre
OF the grasshopper region, we suge es'
that the state convention be called t.
meet in this city, say on the I'D Of Go
tober, the day Of the commencement o
the north Texas fair, when there viii b,
many people here from all parts of th,
state, and much valuable information
may be obtained from visitors from
other states as well as our own. Gen.
4 eral Ganos suggestion is most timely
and we urge it upon the farmers o
Texas. as a matter Of present Inomen
to them, and one which may be mad
to affect favorably their future opera
.ions, and the security Of many goodl
crop in the future. which is, as yet, al
, implanted. These are the days of co
, operation. and the principle may be
come dangerous TO the unprincipled in
: sect which has, during our spring Sc,
son, filed no insignific ant place in th
public mind.