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of the Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpeserythrocephalus), Yellow-billed 

 Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanns), Gat-bird (Mimus carolinensis), Red-eyed 

 Tireo (Yireo olivaeeus), Great-crested Fly-catcher (Myiarchus crinitus), 

 and Crow Blackbird (Quiscalus versicolor), species that had not been no- 

 ticed to feed on them before. The shrike or batcher-bird impales them 

 onto thorns and other pointed substances; and a number of* other birds, 

 as well as reptiles, e.g., toads, frogs, and snakes, feed upon them. 



We therefore strongly recommend the raising of as large a number as 

 possible of hogs and poultry both as a means of utilizing and of destroy- 

 ing the young locusts. 



LEGISLATION. 



For the purpose of encouraging the farmers in the work of destroy- 

 ing these pests, three of the States interested, viz, Missouri, Kansas, 

 and Minnesota, have passed laws granting bounties or authorizing com- 

 bined action. We herewith quote said laws for the benefit of those in 

 these States into whose hands this bulletin may fall. 



MISSOURI. 

 AN ACT to encourage the destruction of grasshoppers. 



Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows : 



Section 1. Any person who shall gather, or cause to be gathered by any person in 

 his employ, eggs of the Rocky Mountain locust or grasshopper, at any time after they 

 are deposited in the earth in the autumn of any year, and before they are hatched the 

 following spring, shall be entitled to a bounty of five dollars for each and every bushel 

 of eggs thus gathered, or for any quantity less than one bushel, bounty at the same 

 rate, to be paid, one-half by the State and one-half by the county in which they are 

 gathered. 



Sec. 2. Any person who shall gather, collect, and kill, or cause to be so collected and 

 killed, young and unfledged grasshoppers in the month of March, shall be entitled to 

 a bounty of one dollar for each bushel, and for the month of April, fifty cents per 

 bushel, and for the month of May, twenty-five cents per bushel, to be paid in the same 

 manner as in the preceding section. 



Sec. 3. Any person claiming bounty under this act shall produce the eggs and grass- 

 hoppers thus gathered or killed, as the case may be, before the clerk of the county 

 court in which such eggs or grasshoppers were gathered or killed, within ten days 

 thereafter, whereupon said clerk shall administer to such person the following oath or 

 affirmation : You do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that the eggs (or 

 grasshoppers, as the case may be) produced by you, were taken and gathered by you, 

 or by person or persons in your employ, or under your control, and within this county 

 and State. 



Sec. 4. The clerk shall forthwith destroy said eggs by burning the same and give 

 to the person proving up the same, under his hand and seal, a certificate setting forth 

 in a plain handwriting, without interlineation, the amount of eggs or grasshoppers 

 produced and destroyed by him, and the name and residence of such person producing 

 the same, which certificate shall be in the following form : 



"State of Missouri, County of : 



"This is to certify that , in the county of , A. B., did this day 



prove before me that he had gathered, or caused to be gathered of eggs, 



grasshoppers, and is entitled to the sum of dollars and cents. 



" Given under my hand and seal of my office this day of ■ — , A. D. 18 — . 



" , A. B., Cleric County Court." 



Which certificate shall be received and taken by the collector of revenue of the county 

 in which the same was given, and such collector shall be allowed pay out of the 

 county and State treasury, one-half from each. 



Sec. 5. Such clerk shall keep a register of all such certificates given by him, in a 

 book which he shall keep for that purpose, in which he shall note down every certifi- 

 cate granted by him, the number and amount, and to whom granted, and transmit a 

 certified copy of such register, under the seal of the court, to the treasurer of the State, 

 who shall not allow and pay any certificate which does not correspond with such reg- 

 ister. 



Sec. b\ Sach clerk shall receive for his services as aforesaid one dollar for such certi- 

 fied copy of the register, and the regular fee for the certificate and seal, and ten cents 



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