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FORESTALLING OUTBREAKS. 



The ranchman would style this " watching out for trouble." By 

 this is meant the careful watching of the fields for the appearance 

 of the grasshoj)pers. When these are found to be present, do not 

 wait to see what they are going to do, but prevent their doing any- 

 thing by putting into practice, before any damage has been done and 

 while the grasshoppers are very young, whatever measures are to be 

 used. It usually requires several days to poison the grashoppers, and 

 large areas can not be traversed with the hopperdozers in a day. Do 

 not then wait to see what the grasshoppers will do, but see to it that 

 by taking them at the start they are prevented from doing any harm. 



Approved : 



James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 

 Washington, D. C, Fehruary 20., 1907. 



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