414 EEPORT UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



■when the grasshoppers shall have "been hatched out, and before the same shall become 

 lull-fledged and fly, notify each al»le-bodied male resident of his district, between the 

 ages of sixteen and sixty years, to perform two days' labor, at such time and at such 

 place and in such manner as shall by said supervisors be deemed most efficient in the 

 destruction of the grasshoppers ; said notices shall be given in the same manner as is 

 jirovided by law for the notice to work upon public highways. 



Sec. 2. Cities of the first and second class shall be governed by the provisions of this 

 act, and it shall be the duty of the mayor of such cities to appoint not exceeding two 

 supervisors for each ward to oversee the labor to be performed under the provisions of 

 this act. 



Sec. 3. In case it shall appear that two days' work is not sufficient to destroy the 

 grasshoppers in any district or ward, and it shall further appear that more time can 

 be profitably employed in the destruction of the grasshoppers, the supervisors of each 

 ward or road-district may require from the persons liable to the provisions of this act 

 not exceediog ten days' labor in addition to the- time hereinbefore mentioned ; and it 

 shall be the duty of such supervisor to give to each person who shall have performed 

 labor under the provisions of this section a receipt for the number of days' iabor per- 

 formed, and the supervisor shall upon oath report to the city or county authorities the 

 names and amount of labor performed by each person. 



Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of all persons subject to the provisions of this act to at- 

 tend when notified, as herein provided, and labor under the direction of the supervisor 

 of their respective district or ward. Any person who, after being notified, shall refuse, 

 neglect, or fail to comply with the provisions of this act, shall forfeit and pay to the 

 county or city treasurers, as the case may be, the sum of ten dollars, together wiih 

 costs of suit, which sum shall be collected by suit beforeany justice of the peace within 

 the county, in an action to be brought in the name of the city or county. 



Sec. 5. The supervisor shall report, under oath, to the city or county authorities the 

 names of all persons who shall have refused or failed to comply with the provisions of 

 this act. 



Sec. 6. This being a case of emergency, this act shall take effect and be in force from 

 and after its passage. 



SUGGESTIONS THAT MAY BE OF SERVICE. 



In addition to the foregoing remedial and preventive measures to be 

 taken in dealing with locusts, a few other suggestions occur which may 

 be of advantage. The plants that can be grown which are generally 

 unmolested by the pests, and which will not, in all likelihood, suffer, 

 have already been enumerated. Those which are cultivated are priuci- 

 pally pease and other leguminous species, castor-beans, sorghum, broom- 

 corn, tomatoes, sweet-potatoes, &c. Such wild plants to which the 

 insects are particularly iDartial, as tansy, wild buckwheat, &c., might be 

 periodically sprinkled with Paris-green water or powder, so as to kill 

 the young locusts that feed upon them. Such plants might also be sown 

 and encouraged around cultivated fields where the young insects are 

 expected to hatch out. These young will also congregate on timothy 

 in preference to other grasses or grain, and a strip of timothy around a 

 corn or wheat field, to be poisoned in the same way, might save the latter. 

 It is also currently supposed that the common larkspur {Delphinium) is 

 poisonous to these insects, but how much truth there is in the statement 

 we are unable to tell. "In going through an oat-field, the winged in- 

 sects drop a great deal of the grain, which, when ripe enongh, might at 

 once be harrowed in, so as to furnish a good growth of fodder, that can 

 be cut and cured for winter use. The lesson of 1873 and 1874 should also 

 not go unheeded. The former year was one of plenty, and corn was so 

 cheap and abundant that it was burned for fuel in many sections where 

 in 1874 there were empty cribs, and the farmers wished they had been 

 more provident. 



