The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-14
DEATH TO GRASSHOPPERS
Professor Lugger Tells How the Pest NJ
BE Exterminated.

Professor Lugger Tells How the Pest May
BE Exterminated.
ST. PAUL, June 1.-THE state ento-
mologist, Otto Lugger, has examined
specimens of the locusts secured IN the
vicinity of Aberdeen, S. D., fur
aished him by the chamber of
commerce of Minneapolis. Professor
Lugger found that there were three va
~rieties, one a small, harmless locust, an
other the common, red legged grasshop-
per, native to the Northwest, while the
third is the much-to- be-dreaded calOpte.
nus spretus, or Rocky mountain locust,
which caused such devastation in Min
nesota in 1889. 1t is this locust, or grass
hopper, as it is more commonly known,
that the farmer of South Dakota has to
fear.
Professor Lugger says that the warm,
whose young have come forth in the vi
cinity of Aberdeen, is one that left the
northeastern corner Of Nebraska Aug.
), 1896. 1t arrived in plenty of time to
lay its eggs and it is the young from
these eggs that the South Dakota farm
srs now have to contend with. PROBES
sor Lugger says that if the farmers COM
bine and go about it in earnest there is
but little danger from the pests in South
Dakota, and that if this is done there is
absolutely no danger of their migrating
across the lines to Minnesota or North
Dakota.
should Use the Hopperdozer.
The young grasshoppers in South
Dakota are just about beginning to feed,
and the way to deal with them is to use
the ''hopperdozer," now, and to pillow
all fields this fall.
The hopperdozer consists of a sheet
iron pan about 10 feet long and 3 feet
wide. On the back part is fastened a
frame over which is attached a canvas
sheet. The front edge is turned up so
that it will not stick into the ground. A
rope is stretched about 6 inches in front
of this pan, to scare up the hoppers. A
cloth is placed all along the bottom of
the pan, over which enough oil is poured
to cover the bottom Of the pan. The
canvas back is also saturated with oil.
Kerosene oil is sure death to graSShOp-
DclS. ANo ~ Ia - paw VI
the body of the locust is touched by the
oil his race is run. A team of horses is
attached to the hopperdozer and it is
dragged oven the fields. 1t may be used
on the growing grain while it is yet
from 1 to s inches high, or until it has
begun to head out. Where a field is
known to be infested with grasshoppers
the hopperdozer will kill off a majority
of the hoppers, and those that are left
they are not more partial to the smell
of kerosene han are General Weyleris
soldiers to the Cuban machete.
Professor Lugger says that it is not
uncommon, where the hoppers are
thick, to gather i'll the hopperdozer from
four to five bushels of the young hopper>
in an hour. That means that
Forty or Fifty Bushels
have been killed, because the professor
has figured that nine out of every ten
hoppers chased up escape the pan; tina,
is to say, they strike the oil so that they
can jump out again or they jump clean
over the pan and strike against the can,
vas DdSh. l1o"NNcl, IL tHty nav
touched the oil at all they will all be-
come good grasshoppers.'
The hopperdozer, however, is only {
makeshift to preserve growing grain
To eradicate the pest the pillow mi be
used. Professor Lugger says it is est
mated that 1000 eggs will be laid OH
square foot of ground, So it will not take
long to repopulate the field. The pillow
will not kill the eggs but buries them 81
deep that the young hoppers will di'
5 hofcr ,hev AN reach the surface III thu
spring.
Must Form a G. nspiracy.
Professor Lager has sent inforna
ton to the South Dakota farmers on tn.
subject and concluded by saying tina
the farmers must combine to eXtermi
nate the locusts by ploughing thei
, fields.
1T will do no good for one man t,
plough his fields" he said. They mus
unite and form "a conspiracy against TIL
grasshoppers. All the fields must b
ploughed or else the man whose field
i are not ploughed will be guilty of spread
g ing the grasshoppers over all the SUI
rounding fields and the farmers tina
ploughed their fields will avail moth
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