The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1877-06-29

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hopper information. hi Nebraska, sN-
rr1n IN the risrr counties, lnosi III tile
efn~slinpIWrx arr deal. a1l thr survivors
will not, he thinks, bc allie ~ H. mnr
ihnn !, per cent. damage to tile growing
crn,w. liz Iowa thc young graas.
hoppcrs nrr mainly confined ~ u i,w
rt.n aties hi il,r northwestern pnrt III tin
State. In certain localities they arr sui.
ii.i.n,ly numerous tn ,l.snlnts tlln ilsl,ls,
IL they are allowed a. grt tlHir EloNti,
anl ~ to rasnging fur u liyrlita~.i.
The Professor visited some seven or light
counties In Minnesota where tl,e oi,slHk
for this years crop IL very slisculiraging.
The farmers are lishcart~ncl, and sun.c
Of ,hc farms have baen abandoned 70
t,c weeds. This apparently ,loom"l
district Ii situated In the southwestern
quarter of the State, and embraces u
strip III country from thirty 10 ilfty mites
wilr nnl scvsnty.iivc miles long.
proi. Thomas takes very cheerful
yicw ~ the grasrhoppcr question, nnd
believes tho problem, - far M II ruMt,S
to i.e Young insect, has been solved.
Iic says That by another year tl,c farmers
will know how IL employ most effective
~ the various devices invented for the
destruction Of the pests. In his late
tour liz found TINT some farmers had
,is..d t,r fnr more successfully than amy.
thing elsc, while otncra hnd driven NIL
their young 'hoppcra into Inst ,litch.r'
,lug for their intcrment. In Cherokee
county, Iowa. the farmers estimate tluit
they have destroyed. In ,litnhcs alone, at
lenHt III, ,ttN bushels, while 3U.MM h,,Nll-
els of the insects hnve persisted from tun
much .nr III one oi tho counties oi Min.
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