CHAPTER VIII 



PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS. 



HOW BEST TO PREVENT LOCUST INJURIES. 



The means to be employed against the ravages of this 

 insect in the more fertile country subject to its periodical 

 visitations, but in which it is not indigenous, may be 

 classed under five heads ; 1, Encouragement of natural 

 agencies ; 2, Artificial means of destroying the eggs ; 3, 

 Artificial means of destroying the unfledged young ; 4, 

 Remedies against the mature or winged insects ; 5, Pre- 

 vention. 



encouragement of natural enemies. 



The natural enemies enumerated in Chapter VII should 

 be encouraged as far as it is possible to encourage them. 

 Man can do little to aid the multiplication of the more 

 minute animals and parasites, but much to assist that of 

 the larger animals, especially the birds mentioned. These 

 should be protected by stringent laws, firmly carried out, 

 restraining the wanton destruction in which sportsmen so 

 often indulge. During the past few years, several of the 

 r Western " States have passed good laws for the protec- 

 tion of our feathered friends, but the laws are often a dead- 

 letter for want of enforcement. 



destruction of the eggs. 



The fact that man can accomplish most in his warfare 

 against locusts by destroying the eggs has long been 



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