The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1903-05-22
GrasshOppers.

Even the young hoppers, when very
small, may be turned under quite sue
cessfuIly in this manner and destroyed
Where plowing can not be resorted to,
athorough narrowing, especially with a
disk harrow, will do much to destroy
the eggs. Some will be crushed, others
will be eaten by birds and still others
will succumb to the freezing and thaw
ing and drying whea separated from the
egg mass, These remedies must be az.
Piled before the young hoppers hatch.
DESTRUCTION OF THE GRAssHoPPERs.
Burning,-When the grasshsppers are
quite small and travel slowly, they may
be killed along ditch banks and in other
places where they are abundant by
covering the ground with straw and
then burning it.
Poisoning Young hoppers may also
be poisoned in large numbers by thor
oughly spraying the young weeds and
other vegetation on the waste land
where they are Matching in large num-
bers by any of the arsenical poisons, as
Paris Green, arsenite of lime, arsenate
OF lead, etc, The poisors should be
used rather strong. Later. when the
hoppers get into the crops, they may be
poisoned quite successfully by the use
ct the arsenic bran mash Mix a pound
OF Paris Green or white arsenic with
about 20 pounds of bran, moisten enough
with water so that the particles will ad.
here together in crumbly mass, and
then SOW broadcast whern the hoppere
are most abundant. Do not use this
where chickens feed.
Bandages,-TCo keep grasshoppers
out of trees, bandage the trunks with
cotton batting or printers ink or axle
grease. If either of the last two named
substances is used do moi put it upon
the bark OF the tree but upon heavy
paper which is first wrapped about the
trunk. If the hoppers jump or fly into
the trees, using poisonous sprays OF
driving with whips will have to be re-
! soT'od to.
Hopper -do1ers For open fields. the
hopper dozers, or catchers, are probabl,
our best remedy after the grasshoppe.s
have hatched. A cheap and simple form
of hopper 'dozer, which is probably "a,
etfectua as any, is made Of sheet irol
and the back is extended by means
OF upright stakes and strip of mus.
lin. In the pan is placed quaint
ty of kerosene or crude petroleum, or
small amoult of water with oil upon tn,
surface and the pan or uozer is thel
drawn over the field by hand or b,
means of couple of horses kept wei
apart so as to collect the hoppers.
the horses are in front Of the middle o
the pan, many of the hoppers will jun
out al the sides and escape the par
Every hopper that gets wet with the ol
dies. Many viii jump into the oil aut
jump out TO die, When they becom
abundant in the pan, they should b
thrown out,
Another type Of hopper.dozer Whic
is much liked by macy who have use
it, catches the grnsshoppers alive in
box. 1t is manufactured by a MIR, j
IL. Behrens, Evane, Colorado, and cost
about Sl2.
Grasshopper Diseases.-The Africa
grasshopper fungus was experiments
with quite extensively last sammer i
Colorado, nearly 400 tubes of ths fungu
being sent out to thosn requesting
quantity for trial. The station ais
used IA mber of tubes endeaYoring I
spread the disease among the grasshoI
= pers about Fort Collins There is yer
little evidence that the disease becam
' destructive TO the grasshoppers in an
! case where it was used, There is
native grasshopper disease that is gen
orally distributed over the countr
{ which did kill great numbers of gras
: hoppers in nearly all parts of the sta
I last year. 1t is popularity Of this di
ease that it causes it's victims to cray
to the tops Of plants to lie. fthis di
> ease does not occur in locality whe
t grasshoppers are abundant, it migl
be we'll to obtain quantity Of the DEF
hpppers from this disease, crush the
as finely as possible u water and sprin
y lie the decoction over the living hoppe
\ aud food plants where possible, especit
ly upon low ground, and just befc
dark.