STREAMCRAFT 



October, Mr. George Gilbert's ingenious method 

 of catching them wholesale as revealed in 

 Forest and Stream, is worthy of extended pub- 

 licity. (Special attention of Dr. van Dyke.) 

 Two bait hunters, armed with a well-dampened 

 piece of cheese-cloth a yard wide and three 

 yards long, seek a level space where the grass 

 is not too high. Such a favorable spot is often 

 located, in midsummer, alongside a road or in 

 a field clearing, that is swarming with grass- 

 hoppers. Each person holds the net at one end, 

 so that it is spread out evenly and sets vertically 

 between them. Make the "drive" against the 

 wind if a palpable breeze, at a good jog for about 

 fifty paces, with the lower edge of net just 

 clearing the top of the grass. The hoppers, 

 alarmed, rise from the grass and will lodge 

 against the net and cling there because of the 

 dampness. Then, at a signal, come together 

 quickly, before the "belly" has had a chance to 

 get out of the net, and wad the net into a loose 

 ball. Sit down, unroll the net a little at a time 

 and pick out your captives. Under favorable 

 conditions, as on a hot August day and in a 

 meadow recently cut over, you may net three 

 hundred in a single haul. 



Store them in a tin box that is watertight at 

 bottom and sides, but is provided with a num- 

 ber of fine air holes near the corners, and with 

 a two-inch slot at one end of the top, about 



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