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In alfalfa culture, if the grasshopper proves an incentive to proper 

 cultivation, the insect is a blessing in disguise. 



Disking alfalfa fields in the early spring, after the frost has left the 

 ground and before vegetation has well started, increases the yield of 

 the first crop one- third; matures the second crop earlier, and brings 

 from it an equally increased yield ; destroys the native grasshopper 

 eggs placed therein, and kills the native grasses which frequently 

 threaten to reclaim the field. 



The young grasshoppers that may hatch from undisturbed ground 

 must be destroyed. They are raised upon the farm where found. 

 The only way to go out of this kind of stock-raising is to kill all the 

 stock. This can be readily done by means of the hopper dozer. The 

 time to use this is as soon as the young insects begin to hop in the 

 spring. Every female grasshopper killed means one hundred grass- 

 hoppers less the next year. 



Contagious diseases and mortal enemies among the lower animals 

 have thus far failed to keep these native locusts in check. It has 

 been demonstrated that man can do it ; upon him rests the responsi- 

 bility. Proper cultivation and vigorous and intelligent use of the 

 hopper-dozer will free any farm of this locust, and the labor expended 

 will be the best investment of the year. The greatest good, the per- 

 manent reduction of this locust, can be brought about by the active, 

 persistent cooperation of all concerned. 



GRASSHOPPER LAW. 



Below we print an extract from the General Statutes of Kansas re- 

 lating to the destruction of grasshoppers, and found in volume 2 

 (1897 edition), on page 939. 



CHAPTER 120, SESSION LAWS OF 1877. 



SEC. 5. In any senatorial district in the state of Kansas where trouble is 

 anticipated from the ravages of young grasshoppers in the year 1877, and any 

 subsequent year thereafter, it shall be lawful for the counties in, said senatorial 

 district to cooperate together in the way and manner herein provided for the 

 destruction of the same. 



SEC. 6. The chairman of the board of county commissioners in the county 

 having the largest number of inhabitants in a senatorial district, where two or 

 more counties form said senatorial district, may notify the chairman of each of 

 the boards of county commissioners of the remaining counties in said district of 

 the time and place when the chairmen of the several boards of commissioners of 

 the respective counties forming said senatorial district shall hold a joint meeting. 



SEC. 7. At such meeting two of their number shall be chosen to act as chair- 

 man and secretary, and the proceedings of the meeting shall be published in all 

 the newspapers printed in the senatorial district. 



SEC. 8. Said meeting shall designate the manner of procedure by road over- 

 seers, and what day or days the young grasshoppers should be driven from the cul- 

 tivated land onto the unburnt prairie or places of destruction, and shall also 



