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(7) PLowine a Strip TO CHECK ADVANCES OF YOUNG Hop- 
PERS: In case a farmer is located next to an immense tract of 
unplowed land, whereon grasshoppers are hatching in large num- 
bers and threatening to overrun his crops, manifestly he cannot do 
the impossible—in other words, plow all the reverted or unused 
land ;—but he might plow a strip of this infested land several rods 
wide, along the side of his own land, thereby forming a barrier 
which it would be difficult for the very young hopper to cross, and 
thus giving time to prepare other means, (hopperdozers, for in- 
stance) to use against them. 
(8) THe MInNNEsoTA GRASSHOPPER Law: This is strikingly 
ineffective, as stated above, and we would do well to follow the 
example of North Dakota in this respect. The method of pro- 
cedure under the Minnesota law is as follows: 
Complaint of the infested land should be made in the fall, to 
the State Entomologist, or to the Board of County Commissioners, 
or both, accompanied by specimens of eggs. The entomologist ex- 
amines the land; and, if conditions justify it, he recommends to the 
Board of County Commissioners that the lana be plowed. The 
County Board serves notice on the owner cr lessee of infested land, 
requesting him to plow within a certain time. If he fails to do this, 
the county plows the land; and, if said plowing benefits him in rais- 
ing crops immediately after, assesses him to refund the money paid. 
It is evident that, under the provisions of this law, the county 
will have to pay most of the bills for plowing. If our farmers think 
this law should be made more stringent, and the owner of said prop- 
erty be made to pay for the plowing in any event, it is in their 
power to make an effort to amend the present law to that end. 
The North Dakota law, given below, is more stringent in that 
the expense of plowing is made a lien upon the land, and the record 
Owner or incumbrancer of said land must pay the cost of plowing. 
Revised Code of North Dakota, 1905. 
ARTICLE 27.—DESTRUCTION OF GRASSHOPPERS. 
Sec. 2108. Duty of County Commissioners.—The Board of County Com- 
missioners shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to order the plowing 
of land, and such other means as they deem expedient, wherever and when- 
ever they deem it necessary to cause the destruction of grasshoppers and 
Rocky Mountain locust’s eggs: and said plowing and other means shall be 
done at the time and in the manner directed by said Board of County Com- 
missioners by the owner or incumbrancer, if any, of said land immediately 
after receiving notice thereof from said ‘Board of County Commissioners. 
