DESTROY THB EGGS 



79 



to 1878, the latter being the last year that Kansas was 

 seriously afEedled by these insedls: 



NUMBER OF ANNUAL VISITATIONS OF THE ROCKY MOUN- 

 TAIN LOCUST DURING THE PERIOD 1851-I878 — 

 TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS. 



' ' Kansas is the seventh in the list, and since that 

 date some other states, notably Virginia and Minne- 

 sota, have suffered severely from the presence of grass- 

 hoppers. Kansas, then, noted for many of its agri- 

 cultural produdts, cannot by any means be said to 

 stand first in the produdlion of these insedls. 



DESTROY THE EGGS 



" The grasshopper referred to is not the famous mi- 

 gratory Rocky Mountain locust, but an insedl which 

 lives and dies near its birthplace. Since these insedls 

 hibernate in the egg stage, endeavor was made to sup- 

 ply the ' ' ounce of prevention. ' ' How, then , to destroy 

 these eggs and yet maintain the integrity of the alfalfa 

 plant became the first problem ; for, you see, for every 

 grasshopper egg destroyed, not only the subsequent 

 damage caused by the insedl after hatching is removed, 

 but the possibility of each of these same insedls repro- 

 ducing another one hundred of its kind is also set 



