The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-02
HOW TO MAKE WAR ON GRASS
HOPPERS.
Fire Off Cannon. Anvils, or Nj
trS GlYcerime aG them.
From the Atkinson Champion.


From the Atkinson Champion.
A man named Lucius A. Hardee,
Of Florida, has sent a petition to
Congress asking that body to give
him snch aid as may be necessary
to enable him to make an expert
ment which, he believes, will effect
ually destroy the lOcustg or grass
hoppers. The petitioner goes en- to
state that eight or ten years ago the
c1rculio was doing great damage in
hhis peach orchard. A railroad runs
through his farm, and he noticed
that at night the curculio was much
frightened by the whistle of the 10
connective. He therefore concluded
that the pests might be destroyed
by severe conclusions of the atmes-
phere. So he bored an augur hole
In stump, and loaded it with pow
der, That night, when the air was
dense and heavy, he caused an ex-
plosion which produced a heavy
conclusion Of the atmosphere and
ground. Next day, to his surprise,
he found that all the caterpilIars on
his vines had been killed. He af-
terward experimental, as did his
neighbors, ana found that concus-
sion effectually destroys caterpil-
lers, and he states that conclusion
is now an effectual remedy against
the ravages of insect or parasite life
IN Florida. and that the eOneussion
under ground, caused by the explo-
sion of gan powder, will destroy
frogs, mice, grO1nd-mole, and grub
worm, &C."
He further declares that he at
tempted to get a patent on his dis
cOvery, but failed; and that it is
now in use in Florida and Louis
lana in the destruction of scale in
sect, &C., and used in Austria and
France for the destruction of PeX-
!oxera, or Grape Louise. He also
states that at the meeting of the Po-
biological Society held in Rich
mond, Va, In September, 1868,
these facts, with proofs establishing
them, were laid before that BODY,
snd the Society received them ia
Vorabiy. Mr. Hardee expresses
confidence that he can extermlnate
the grasshoppers by this process.
He is sanguine that it takes but lit
tie conclusion OF the ground to de-
stroy all the eggs of the locust, and
that if an experiment OF heavy con-
cussiOn of the atmosphere is bro't
about, when the atmosphere il
dense and humid, that miles of the
dense clouds of grasshoppers of the
West can be Destroyed by one con-
cussion.
The petitioner further claims that
he can produce rain within twenty
four hours, by conclusion. This,
however, is an old theory, and is
pretty well established as fact. He
then goes on to say:
"Yonr petitioner also claims that
he cen prove that conclusion will
destroy insect or parasite life; that
If the theory laid down by scient-
lists. that yellow fever and all con-
tagious and infectious diseases are
caused by anamalcuiR is true, that
concnssion will destroy this dis
ease and In proof will state that no
yellow fever or ether eontagion sp-
peared in any eff the Southern cities
subject 10 heavy conclusion during
the late war.
your petitioner claims that in a
very recent experiment of concus-
sion, asstone jar WAS broken some
three hundred feet from the cannon
used, and .panes OF window glass
were shattered at great distance.
and he is led to believe that any con-
cussion that will do this will GER
lainly destroy the thin game Wings
of the western grasshepper, and
again bege of your honorable body
that ha be alloYed TO use heavy
conclusion against the crest plague
OF the west, the locust or grasshop-
pers."