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GRASSHOPPERS AND OTHER INJURIOUS INSECTS OF 1911 AND 1912. 



In the case of a small garden plot, practical protection could be 

 obtained before the grasshoppers acquire wings, by placing twelve- 

 inch boards on edge about the garden, thus making a complete 

 fence twelve inches high and tacking on the upper edge a three or 

 four inch strip, so that it will project two inches or more on the 

 field side. On the outside of this twelve-inch board, just below the 

 stripping, place a band of tar, and renew it in order to keep it 

 sticky, 



Mr. Blatchley in his report on the Orthoptera of Indiana, speak- 

 ing of turkeys as a remedy for grasshoppers, states as follows: 

 "Under the leadership of an experienced gobbler, almost their en- 

 tire time during the summer and fall months is spent in wandering 

 over the fields and pastures in search of the fat and juicy nymphs 

 of locusts, grasshoppers and crickets. Indeed, most of the luscious 

 white and brown meat of our Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner 

 was once, grass, then grasshopper and finally turkey. No better 

 and more practical remedy can be devised, for the damage which 

 the insects do it, especially in these days of "turkey trusts" often 

 more than compensated by the value of the pounds of flesh which 

 this domesticated fowl stores up from its favorite food of locusts." 



ENEMIES OF GRASSHOPPERS. 



In spite of the fact that these insects appear to be the natural 

 prey of many animals both large and small, the inroads made upon 



their ranks are so insignifi 



leant compared with the 

 countless thousands left to 

 attack our crops that we 

 cannot rely upon these ene- 

 mies as particularly helpful 

 allies. Yet that they make 

 some impression is evident 

 and the species aiding man 

 in this particular, even in a 

 very slight degree should 

 be mentioned here. Prob- 

 ably the help rendered is 

 We list the forms observed in 



Fig. 19. A Robber Fly. I'minarlnig i-ertebralits. 

 Original. 



more extensive than would appear, 

 this state preying upon grasshoppers 



