The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-07-24
FARM BUREAU TALKS
''The Grasshopper Shall Be Burden >
By H. A. IRELAND

Inc UTdssHOppeI OHdu De DuIueh.
Back in sunny Kansas" where the
sunflower blooms" and various other
things happen occasionally, the
grasshopper has arisen in his might
and is making his influence felt after
his own peculiar fashion, and news
paper reports assure us that that in
fluence is not to be despised. So Sc
rious has the invasion become in some
sections, that special men have been
detailed by the State Agricultural
college to assist the farmers in their
fight against the pest. In one section
a grasshopper day was proclaimed on
which the whole country side turned
out to engage in the warfare; but it
is reported, in spite of the efforts be-
ing put forth to exterminate the hop
pers, entire fields are being devastat-
ed.
We sympathize with those Kansas
farmers as much as we have time
for, but good many of US have SINH
lar troubles of our own, for in various
parts of the county the same pest has
appeared and in sufficient strength
to be a serious menace to growing
crops. Letters have come to this
office asking for information regard
ing the control of the pest and | have
been on a number of farms where the /
hoppers were doing considerable dam
age In view of the fact that we may !
expect second brood that will appear |
soon, few brief remarks regarding !
some of the remedies that have been
tried, may be useful.
The most satisfactory remedy seems
10 be poison bait, made according to
The following formula: With 20
bounds of dry bran is mixed l pound
IF Paris green or white arsenic.
This mixture is moistened with three
and one-half gallons of water to which
has been added one-half gallon of
heap syrup and the juice and finely
chopped pulp and peel of three or
our oranges or lemons. The bait is
hen scattered broadcast over the in
ested field early in the morning, the
mount given being sufficient for five
Icres.
Poison sprays have been used
tut are not generally recommended.
n one case where hoppers attacked I
-oung apple trees lime white wash
IS thick as the sprayer would throw,
vas tried and reported as being very
Elective and perfectly harmless |
m not in position to recommend l
his personally but it might be worth S
trial where other remedies do not t
i've results. l
"Hopper-dozers' are useful in cases
here they can be used. The best
orm, if the hoppers are not too nu-
ferrous, is good big flock Of turkeys.
mother form consists of shallow =
an that may be eight by two and
alf feet by five inches in depth, T"
lounted on sled runners with a three G
,ot screen attached to the back side. y
he pan, which is better divided in :
three-foot compartments, is nearly n
lied with water upon which little y
erosene is poured, and dragged :
ross the field. By means of the n
reen large numbers of hoppers may u
induced to enter the water and oil
18th which is quickly fatal.
For few days after emerging from
e eggs the young hoppers may be
lite easily driven into traps where
ey can be destroyed. In the Phil sc
inc Islands the natives have GUS ell
m of capturing adult insects with at
is and roasting them for purposes R
their own. This method is very eff
ctive as far as it goes.
The female hoppers deposit their
gs in the ground, usually in bare or W.
fields. Wherever it is pl
ssible to stir the ground in SUCH Pr