GRASSHOPPER CONTROL. Ff 
tributed throughout the northern United States from the Atlantic to 
the Pacific. This grasshopper is known to injure oats, wheat, grasses, 
and occasion- 
ally flax. 
The New 
Mexico long- 
Winged grass- 
hopper (fig. 
10) is a large, 
strong - flying 
species, often 
measuring 
more than 2 %& 
inches in 
length and is 
yellowish- 
gray, marked 
with choco- 
late - colored 
spots. It is Fie. 8.—Carolina grasshopper (Dissosteira carolina) : Above, adult 
known to ex- male ; below, adult female. About twice natural size. (Original.) 
ist in the central United States, from Idaho and Montana to 
New Mexico and Texas, and at times has been exceedingly in- 
jurious to the native grasses on the cattle ranges of New Mexico. 
MANNER OF INJURY. 
Grasshoppers, both 
young and old, injure 
crops in but one way, that 
is, by gnawing and de- 
vouring them wholesale, 
and where very numerous 
ic. 9.— Pellucid or clear-winged grasshopper they have been known to 
(Camnula pellucida) : Adult female, About twice consume almost every 
natural size. (Original.) 
green thing in_ sight. 
Even the bark on the tender twigs of trees is eaten by iter ravenous 
insects, which are known to gnaw the handles of agricultural tools, 
such as hoes and rakes, in order to secure the salt left upon them 
by the perspiring hands of the farmer. 
CONDITIONS FAVORABLE TO OUTBREAKS OF GRASSHOPPERS. 
It is generally believed in the middle and far western regions of 
the United States that when two dry summers occur in succession, 
