BULLETIN NO. 1 SECOND EDITION. 15 



over a field. A good and cheap pan is made of ordinary sheet-iron, 

 eight feet long, eleven inches wide at the bottom, and turned up a foot 

 high at the back and an inch high at the front. A runner at each end, 

 extending some distance behind, and a cord attached to each front 

 corner, complete the pan, at a cost of about $1.50. A similar pan on 

 wheels, and moved by a handle behind, may be operated by a single 

 person to good advantage. 



We have known from seven to ten bushels of young locusts caught 

 with one such pan in an afternoon. It is easily pulled by two boys, and 

 by running several together in a row, one boy to each outer rope and 

 one to each contiguous pair, the best work is performed at the least 

 labor. Heavier or longer pans, to be drawn by horses, should have 

 transverse partitions to avoid spilling of the liquid; also more runners. 

 The oil may be used alone so as to just cover the bottom, or on the sur- 

 face of water, and the insects strained through a wire ladle. When the 

 insects are very small, one may economize in kerosene by lining the pan 

 with saturated cloth; but this becomes less efficient afterward, and 

 frames of cloth saturated with oil do not equal the pans. Where oil has 

 been scarce, some persons have substituted concentrated lye, but when 

 used strong enough to kill, it costs about as much as the oil. The oil- 

 pans can only be used when the crops to be protected are small. 



Small pans for oil, or for burning on the principle of that made by 

 Mr. Hetzel, mentioned on page 7, attached to an obliquing pole or han- 

 dle, do excellent service in gardens. 



Eecently a machine for destroying the young locusts has come into 

 extensive use in Minnesota. This consists of a sheet-iron pan, with the 

 back elevated and curved; it is covered with-coal-tar, which fastens the 

 insects falling upon it. When the tar is covered with insects they are 

 burned. These pans may be drawn or pushed, as suggested in reference 

 to the kerosene-pans. 



Published June 12th, 1877. 





