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ing description is given: The machine is intended to be drawn by 
horses, the drawing representing one to be drawn by a team. " The 
frame is mounted upon two wheels. The front is a sheet-iron platform, 
over which revolves an elevator made of slats, which carry the locusts 
into boxes, where they pass between rollers, are crushed, and fall to the 
ground. The sides and top or back are wire screws, the whole forming 
a scoop 16 feet long (on the bottom 19 feet), 8 feet high, the top of 
which can be lowered or raised according to the height of the grain or 
grass." 
A more detailed description follows : 
AA ? driving-wheels: B, guiding- wheel ; D, setting-lever; d, retaining-post ; G, 
endless carrier; ~Hh, gearing for elevator and crushing-shaft ; I, crushing-rollers; L, 
set-screw to spiral spring ; I, spiral spring to press rollers together when necessary; 
N, slats on endless chain with sheet-iron projections to hold the locusts; M, drag- 
chain (or strips of light wood) to stir the locusts. 
Mr. Peteler believes that, with a single-horse machine, 40 or 50 acres 
can be gone over in a single day, and by changing horses more can be 
done; but we, unfortunately, had no opportunity to test the practical 
working of the machine, as, by the time it was perfected, simpler and 
satisfactory methods were extensively being employed in Minnesota, 
and the inventor did not feel encouraged to manufacture his machine. 
Indeed, its expense is too great to warrant its manufacture, except to 
order by clubs of farmers. To use Mr. Peteler* s own words : " This 
machine is intended for local or State authorities to use on uncultivated 
lands adjoining farms and unsettled prairies, in order to destroy the 
insects during the entire season ; for that purpose there should be 
proper organization, with camp outfit, etc., to follow up the swarms, 
loading the machines on wagons, and battle with the 'hoppers morning 
and evening, when they are comparatively sluggish. These machines 
are not designed as temporary contrivances, believing that we shall 
have the scourge several seasons in some parts of the State, and they 
should be made strong and durable." Instead of paying bounties from 
the State treasury for the locusts, Mr. Peteler would have the State aid 
the farmers by investing in these machines. " Fifty thousand dollars 
advanced to farmers will place, at $10 each, 1,250 one-horse machines 
in their hands to keep their grain-fields clear. If they use them only 
GO days during the season, and go over only 40 acres per day, destroy- 
ing but one-half bushel per acre (frequently they would destroy 8 to 10 
bushels per acre), they would send 25,000 bushels daily, or 1,500,000 in 
60 days, where bad 'hoppers go. That money would be returned to the 
State in 4 to 6 months by the farmers, provided the State and local 
authorities will do their duty by destroying the pests on uncultivated 
lands." 
Under this head we may mention the curious suction-fanning ma- 
chine invented by Mr. J. A. King, of Boulder, Colorado, and one of 
which, purchased by Mr, T. C. Henry, of Abilene, Kansas, we had the 
