204 DESTEUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA: 



" The advantages of this machine are that it requires no additional 

 expense to run it, as for oil, tar, &c. It will catch the -winged locust 

 as well as the joung, if operated on cool mornings and evenings, and 

 is adapted to almost all conditions of growing grain. The machine can 

 be made for about $10, and perhaps less.^' In practice we find it best 

 to draw the machine by hitcining to the runners, and to brace the wings 

 at desired angles, according to the strength of the wind, by means of 

 two iron rods, as in illustration. 



The Flory Locust Machine, 



{See Figs. 16 and 17.) 



This contrivance, put up by J. S. Florey, of Greeley, Colorado, 

 is worthy of mention in this connexion ; for, while it may be used 

 with coal tar, it is essentially a catching and cruishing machine. 



The main feature of this invention is a revolving platform of heavy 

 canvas or wire-cloth, which runs between two horizontal rollers. Long 

 arms reach forward, which support a revolving i^eel ; from these arms 

 downward extend sheet-iron sides, over the top a canvas covering ; all 

 so constructed as to form a large wade mouth, into which the 'hoppers 

 are driven by the arms of the revolving reel and carried between the 

 two rollers and crushed. Horizontal strips running along the rollers 

 serve to keep the rollers and platform clear of the crushed grasshoppers. 

 The whole machine is supported on two main wheels about the middle 

 and two smaller ones in front. Extending back is a frame or crossbar, 

 to which one or two horses may be hitched to push the machine for- 

 ward, or it may be operated by hand. The front of the platform runs 

 close to the ground, and by bearing down at the rear by the driver it 

 can easily be lifted over any obstruction that may be in the way. The 

 machine can be raised or lowered in front to suit the crop over which it 

 is run. 



This invention will destroy the grasshoppers without the necessity 

 and expense of using oil or tar. The patent, we understand, also 

 covers the combinations of a receptacle immediately under the rollers 

 into which the grasshoppers are carried, and in which, if need be, water 

 and oil may be kept, and also a long, narrow hopper (just over the 

 rollers), into which coal tar may be put and allowed to run through on 

 to the platform, thus making it a self-tarring machine. Either of these 

 combined methods of destroying the 'hoppers may be used as the farmer 

 may choose. The machine is so simple in construction that any ordi- 

 nary workmen can put them up at a comparatively small price. The 

 machine may be made of any size desired, from a small hand machine 

 to one a rod or more in width. 



