Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1913 — Resourceful Kansas Man Turns Plague to Good Account. [ARTICLE]

Resourceful Kansas Man Turns Plague to Good Account.

The following clipping sent to Levi Clouse from Kingman, Kans., shows how a. resourceful Kansas farmer turned a grasshopper plague into a big benefit, saved his crop and has chicken feed stored away for winter use. Mr. Clouse does not care to stand for the truthfulness of the article. It reads: Elmer Mather, a farmer who lives near Burdette, has quite an extensive irrigation plant. He put in eighteen acres of beets, <hich were doing fine when they were attacked by the grasshopper plague. Mr. Mather procedeed on the work of improvising a trap out of a header and pans of water and crude oil. He not only saved the crop, but caught 119 bushels of hoppers, the greater part of which he has dried, sacked and stored away for chicken feed for winter use. An inspector from the Garden City beet district was looking over Mr. Mather’s beet patch not long ago, and estimates its value to be at least SIOO an acre.