The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-16

forms have been found for a long
time.
Second. Fall blowing is not neces-
sarily a ''sure cure,
Third. Alternate freezing and
thaWing, as discovered by us, does not
necessarily kill the newly Matched i'm
sect. Heavy rains when Matching are
not necessarily to be regarded as
''sure cure
Fourth. A touch OF oil using the
hopperdozer win kill the insects OF
the short-winged forms or any Of
them when they are very young be-
fore the wings are formed, but not
long winged forms and In adults
where the wings have grown. these
wings appear to protect the insects
from the fatal dose. I am referring
now to insects which sometimes jump
out of the pan Of the hopperdozer.
We have been accustomed to tell
farmers that a touch OF oil will kill
the insect even though they appear to
hop away unframed. This statement
we will have to modify as just stated.
Fifth. Eggs deposited In low
ground, covered by water, are by no
means doomed. Here we find that
while the Matching of those eggs may
be retarded somewhat, they are not
necessarily destroyed by the water
standing upon them, as we have been
accustomed to believe in the past.
Sixth. Farmers sometimes think
when seeing red mites ON g~rasshop-
pers that those grasshoppers will be
killed presumably before they do any
harm. Observations do not bear us
out, for we have personally seen
hundreds OF grasshoppers. injurious
species, depositing their eggs although
covered with these small mites. IN
other words, the grasshoppers have
done all the harm possible and COM
pleted 1t by laying eggs for another
generation.
Grasshoppers were not injurious
this last summer in Minnesota and
presumably not particularly so in
North and South Dakota, and many
of us have believed that they were
killed when Matching by the abundant
rains Of the spring and summer. MY
field men, however. III contradiction
to this report that grasshoppars were
lust as abundant this last fall as
ever, but that owing to the rank
growth OF grain and particularly of
weeds amongst the grain, their work
WAS not at all in evidence, hat / be-
lieve I am justified in predicting from
observations of the past three or four
years, that North and South Dakota
and Minnesota Will always surfer from
time to time whenever we have one or
more seasons of unusually dry
weather on farms adjoining large
tracts Of untitled or reverted land.
AS al result of two years, work. we
have found that a poisonous spray
composed OF three pounds of a~rsenite
OF soda In 1870 gallons OF water, to
which has been Added one and one
half gallons OF cheap molasses, makes
d spray fatal to grasShoppers, not IN
furious to the grain when used upon
grain, and not Injurious to stock when
used as directed upon pastures on
other land where stock haS access.
This spray costs shout soc per acre
for the material, figured upon so gal
IONS per acre. It's use calls for early
and concerted action upon the part III
farmers and should be applied when
hopers are very young and always he
fore the wings have DEVELOPED. Spray
ing is hest sfnne carly III the lnoria4
ms DO not spr#y JUS bafore i
rain Do mot delay spraying on ac4
cculit 9f pressure 81 other work CO.
iuperati0n lis tne key I'd auceeSs Grass