The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-09-01
KILLED BY 4 MO DIET.
Misfortune mat Befeli . ~Treuchmanp
Venture IN Raising Swine.

ssisfortune mat Befeu . T~renchmanp
Venture In Raising swine.
soMssIs souSp. Me. Aug p.-The
overflow ~ money from tho pockets OF
Rsr Harbor spectators reached Somes's
sound two years ago, dnoo which time
the value Of rocky pasture and has I'D
vanoed from go to morn than 81 900 an
aero. and aged farmers who have walked
around In hemlock oversll- for 6fty years.
are now riding In gilded traps and wear
ing diaInunis. The mnst marked i'm
provements nave beAn msds by . oom-
psny which has brought about 1000 sctss
along the waterfront. cutting Oh the bushes.
removing tho stones and converting a
vesiy sheep pasture into a beautiful lawn.
Everything was moving along nicely
until last fall. when the hungry grass-
hoppcrs carne over from the mainland.
and inside OF two weeks. alto UP every
green thing. leaving the land a. dry and
brown M a country highway. A IN.
land had been purchased % DO sol on
IN house lots. and as nobody would buy
slice~ OF q parched desert at 50 onnts a
square foot. IL was the plain duty OF the
company 10 el tsrminats the locusts before
any business could bs transacted. because
tho tract must he restored 70 it, original
verdsnoy or possible ~purchAsers would
90 elsewhere TO make Investment.
A year ago the directors OF the COM
pany held a long and anxious s~c.-ion,
at which II Vas voted 10 nay 81 a hushel
for al the living or dead looosts people
would bring TO Mr.. Octave Loubet, the
local agent OF the company. who lived
on the spot and whose duty was TO show
the land To any and all ~visitors wboes ou'-
side appearance indicated tho possession
OF wealth. A. that time the State Of New
Hampshire was paying a bounty OF ~
cents a bushol on ~gras-hoppers. and II
was argued that q hoh company with land
TO sell c ould afford 20 douhle the premium
held out by a poor agricultural State. All
through tho autumn c! 1910 Mr. Ioubet
dishur~-d wealth N the bows and men
OF the ~nr.Rhborhood. sometimes paying
out a1 much rs s35 n day for the no1io,I-
insccts. Before the frost came and put
a stop 90 the traffic he had @-rur~d the
largest collection OF insects ever seen Ia
A. the weather continued warm and tho
insects began to decay, Ioubet was In
formed by the Board Of Health that he must
disposs OF his purchases or be indicted
for maintaining n nuisance. beloty ne
nH0 OtNNtltI IINA WAAaN - 49,
told him that pigs were fond OF grass
hoppers, prefer1ng them Go. rips o'ech-
nuts or rood Indian com. Tie purchased
a few shoats and found that tho report
was true. Then he bought more plgs
and wont into the business on a large scale.
turning the locusts into pork and making
money rapidly until cold weather cut on
the supply OF insects.
The bounty on gra~hopper provlnga
success last year the COMPANY renewed
its offer In 1901. and Ioubet looked forward
60 a long SEASON Of great profits In growing
locust-fed pork. During Juns and July
the locusts were snalla and immature. 30 that
the people who did the gathering went fab
ing for mackeel In the bay. and waited
for the insects to grow. About Aug, 10.
when tha g~rasshopper wcre from an inch
and q hall to two inches long, and the
macherpl had gone esewhere, tho hsher-
men came ashore aud began 10 sweep their
great nets across the sward. gathering In
az many NJ fifty bushels OF iocusts IN q DAY
and keeping IL up for a week al a TINS.
loubet's pigs were growing, lat. He saw
fortune and honors a. the cloe- OF his sea-
sons work, and was planning nov To spend
the money which he should receive from
the sal" 81 pork, when the supply OF u,
to enrich him had found that IL paid better
90 catch locusts than II did to hsh for mack
erel. and had exhausted the crop oon-
dltion OF Affairs which pleascd the director.
Of the lar company but h,ea ths sou oil
AZ this tune Loubet had forty pip In
his pers and the price of Indian meal had
gone up from 81 to N~ q bushsl Willis
tbs insects lasted hs Wa SURE To prosper,
but with meal at ei " q bushei. with forty
swine 90 fed, and no grasshoprep coming
in. tho outlook was not chrerful. But
Louie, was Q mar OF many resouros~.
IA. saw that the potato lelds which had
been planted tn supply the wants Of tn.
summer visitors. had turned yellow ana
we're diving from the ravasvs OF the Colo
rado heetlc, AMI argued that ~ al insects
~er- harmful snd The company Wa rch,
Il would not 10 ~cNccdinS his authority 10
buy potato b~s,le- nov that the supply 81
lo-i-,- Rad fsilcd. by doins this he cnuld
~ the land % n great pct AMI furnish
food Tor hs swine. which were growing thin
and hungry on -cAnt rs,iotls 81 coru meal.
Tho men Who had s.f ~ him 81 we'll In
picking locus's were a, onco ssi AT WORK
on the putaio pa,cir-- a. The Colorado
t-ssl- n MT a. buihy - IN" aver
ogr s~ra~~hopy-r tho hnfds dd not
make much nlots~y NJ tisir NV calling.
lat Iouh-' -s-nr~d enough tn-rcts o. "a"
cour~r q ~. h-~i dsy Va furnish an eN-nlig
meal ~ his s~ine 10 nsto-n Tbs, TIE
s1sto a. u,.v had IN. loF~l-is, hui be- i-issNed
fhrir dtsinclinattou ~ vst gys~dilv Ma
a.is o. a change - disi. wtsch suuld not
lsn Gov kns. l-~suse, ~ - saId, a hug
D. a aug afpf - lntAs ~ rs - HANAAh
uug. ~ uat th-y vali grow ist. ~ mati~'
shat tn gArtlculaI s~iS,tr~ NAV -
u va. i~s-Ior. a great sNssck 30 lou'-i
Mlssn h. y rui out thT u~ai uHaisilss atd Hound
es-rs ot~ ~ ne Iags lvii4 dead t-stas ~
trnu.h Tie EstAta bf- had bs~n tr-atssi
ID = d. ct Paris grocH = trs dAvR Nih'
.rd - = aaAd tsas aiHd A. much $40 a.
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