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of theRed-headed Woodpecker (ilietowerpeseri/f/jrocep/ia/ws), Yellow-billed 
Cuckoo (Coccyztcs americanus), Cat-bird {Mimiis carolinensis), Eed-ejed 
Vireo {Vireo oZirace?is), Great-crested Fly-catcher {Myiarchus crinitus), 
and Crow Blackbird [Quiscalus versicolor), species tbat had uot been no- 
ticed to feed on them before. The shrike or butcher-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 iu which they are 
gathered. 
Skc. 2. Any person who shall gather, collect, and kill, or cause to bo 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 Ajinl, fifty cents per 
bushel, and for the month of May, twenty-five cents per bushel, to be paid iu 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 interlineiition, the amount of eggs or grasshoppers 
produced and destroyed by him, and the name and rtisidonce 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 bo 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., Clerk 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 tiie treasurer of the State, 
who shall not allow and pay any certificate which does not correspond with such reg- 
ister. 
Sec. 6. Such 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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