MODERN WARFARE AGAINST GRASSHOPPERS 469 



doubts as to the recurrence of the trouble. And then, too, we have the 

 more or les .3 shiftless renter who says, " No, I do not think I will do 

 anything — hardly worth while — I move next year." We find, too, a 

 certain class, foreigners mostly (a large portion of Minnesota farmers 

 are Scandinavians), who feel that the state should send men to their 

 fields at its own expense, protect their crops by the state's efforts, and, 

 incredible as it may seem, in some instances, pay them (the farmers) 

 8 generous board bill at the same time. Then, too, many of the real 

 estate men in a locality more or less afflicted, look with disfavor upon 

 efforts naturally attended with some publicity, to instruct the farmers 

 in methods of control, claiming it injures business. 



The misconceptions regarding grasshoppers and locusts which pre- 

 vail, and the consequent errors which creep into print, are amazing, 

 the most common one possibly being confounding of one of the 

 harvest flies, or so-called seventeen-year locust, with the true locust or 

 grasshoppers. The seventeen-year locust or periodical cicada, which, 

 by the way, is as yet lacking, or extremely rare in Minnesota, is a 

 sucking insect and belongs to an entirely different order than that of 

 locusts or grasshoppers. One can imagine, then, the feelings of an 

 entomologist upon beholding the following newspaper comment, placed 

 upon the front page with startling head-lines : " Within the past week 

 several farmers have seen the genuine red-legged, seventeen-year, or 

 Rocky Mountain locust flying high in the air." We have used the 

 term "grasshopper" repeatedly in this article, because it is a popular 



Fig. 0. Removing Dead Hoppers from Hopper-dozeu. 



