Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1913 — KILL OFF THE GRASSHOPPER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KILL OFF THE GRASSHOPPER

Insect Not Looked Upon With Horror *nd Fear It Was Comparatively Few Year* Ago.

(By F. L. WASHBURN.)

Concerted action by government and state authorities has had the effect of changing the dreaded grasshopper from a menace which was national in scope, to an insect which while harmful enough in character, is no looked upon with the horror and fear it was comparatively few years ago. There are many methods of' combating these pests, but three methods are especially practical in most localities. Fall plowing is considered the most efficient. Plow the eggpods under, burying some, and breaking open others so that moisture can get im, and exposing still_jDthers to the attacks of their enemies—birds, shrews, etc. The second mdthod is that of poisoned baits. Use either poisoned bran or the Crlddle mixture. Poisoned, bran can be used only in situations where stock and poultry are excluded. Neither should it be used where partridge and quail are likely to feed. It is merely bran poisoned with parts green or arsenic, two pounds of parig green to 100 of bran, moistened with water and a little molasses, so'that the bran will hwt stick together when taken up with a spoon. Crlddle mixture Is horse-manure mixed wUh arsenic and slightly salted. It is to be distributed about the Helds in small masses. We all know of the fondness of grasshoppers for anything containing salt. They will even roughen fork handles In their efforts to get at the salt deposited on them with the perspiration. This mixture Is fecommended In some of the western states. The proportions are about as follows: Paris green, one pound; salt, two pounds; fresh horsedroppings, 100 pounds. The horse droppings are usually measured out lq a three-gallon pall. Five pailfulls being taken as the right amount for one pound of the poison. The salt is die

, % solved in a pail of water, the polsoi stirred in, and the whole mixed wit) the droppings in a half barrel. Scatter it about the fields well, is quantity according to number ol grasshoppers.

One of Nature's Hopper Dozers.