The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-05-03
rarmer., Fact. about Gra..hopper..

The Chicago IriJuHe has gathered
from Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota aud Ne
braska a great deal Of curious iniormn-
tun about the gr,hshoppea Of the West
A few suggestive facts reported by the
farmers are worth repeating even on the
Atlantic scAbOard, ns they give "a vivid
idea uf the beginnings of the locust
plague such as the labored description
uf scientific men fails 30 produce A
correspondent. IN NeosAo county, Kan
naA says that the ground is full of eggs,
there being as many ns a hundred 10 the
square inch In some places, which will,
ia his opinion, stand any amount Of bad
weather and hatch when the proper
time comes. But he naively remarks
that all the yOung RraShh0ppers that
have been found are "uur native AMI
mai, and with hn agricultural disregard
81 grammar Le adds "The Colorado
hopper is "a different institution entire
ly ls any one acquainted with their
makeup can see al "a glance. 4 man
IN Franklin county is amazed 10 think
that the eggs which have been deposited
ia that utIghbuThO0d can stand the
frosty weather that has prevailed uf
late, but bee cuufesses with many misgiy-
ings that such ut them AZ have been put
under the microscope look sound. The
farmers Of that region take the whole
matter coolly, and are determined 10
meet the 'hoppers firmly and drive
them into the bitches and destroy
them :" which v a new version Of the
heroic determination to welcome the in
yAiers with bloody hands 10 hospitable
graves. From Labette county GORE
spondent cheeriully announces that the
people there expect o. be alive with lO-
Gusts ia the summer. but that they are
not nervous, ar they have kept lot Of
old grass % burn and have planted
"barley. castor beans aud pampas, which
are hopper proof
4 farmer IN Nemaha county writes
that seine Of the grasshoppers' eggs were
Matched ont during the warm weather IA
February, and that even the sceptical
county editor WIS forced 10 acknowledge
the fact. he adds Some Of the eggs
are spoiled, but "a large part are vet
good Another farmer writes from the
same county, classifying the locusts rs
natives aud foreigners. OF the former
lie saws There are some Of the ma
tiyes Matching Ia sheltered localities I;
some of them are hAlf.gioWn. OF the
latter he SAWS None of the for
eiguers are Matching vet that / can find "
A correspondent from Washington
county SAYS that the grasshoppers' eggs
are generally hil IN sandy places along
the creeks they that ARE proof against
cold. but that the March aud April rains
kill them that many have been Matched
out already along southern slopes. He
adds We are cheerful bat organ
ized A farmer III another part of the
same county gives this description Of
the fayorite places Of the insect
q" Roaisides and prairies where the grass
is troddeu out. siubble fields, orchards,
corn fields and every other place where
the ground is bare and little hard is
literally iull Of locust eggs. 4 farmer
IN Price county, who II probably accus-
toned e. making political speeches,
gives the law ami the state of public
opinion Ola the subject 81 locusts ia some
very large words He SAYS " Our Leg
islature has passed an act authorizing
the road oversccrr 81 call on all male
persons 10 assist in destroying them
should they visit us this season. Burn
ing prairie grass simultaneously in our
county haas been agiiatei some, with
view 10 destroy them after Matched out.
Prom Sac Ci'-. w., a correspondent
that some ol the grasshopper
eggs have been hatched ont by artificial
means. and that the young locusts have
been exposed 81 great degrees of cold
without effect In Page county some Of
them were put between two pieces Of
ice which were frozen solid aud then
the imprisoned erasshoppers
coming 80 life and moving Off In other
places the eggs were Matched ont hy the
family stove and the Young locusts were
set in the open air ~ night and frozen
stiff. but when put beside the stove again
IN the morning they became as lively as
ever. Thruuuhuut the whole Northwest
the prairie grass has been spared. and is
left 60 use against the grasshuppcrs II
they should come in Ewarms. Core
spaudcnce from Minnesota indicates that
the people in some parts of the State
VIII have 30 fight FOR their harvests. IL
is said that some Of the experimentalists
in that State have frozen and thawed ont
the young locUsts as often IS three
times. and found them able 20 hop about
after the third thawing. From Nebraska
comes the same story; but one Of the
farmers of Franklin county in that State
declares that the idea Of fighting the To-
Gusts through organizations under the
command of the ruadmasters, as pro-
vided 10y Nebraska statutes. is as absurd
as would be the attempt TO turn the wind
with tanning mills.-NCic York World.