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enveloped by the insects. Rewards are offered and paid for 
their collection, half a franc beino; criven for a kilooranime 
(about 2 lb. 3^ oz. avoirdupois) of the insects, and a quarter 
of a franc for the same weight of their ego's. At this rate 
twenty thousand francs were paid in Marseilles, and twenty- 
five thousand in Arles, in the year 1613 ; in 1824, five thou¬ 
sand five hundred and fortv-tAvo, and in 1825, six thousand 
two hundred francs Avere paid in Marseilles. It is stated that 
an actiA^e boy can collect from six to seA'en kilogi’ammes (or 
from 131b. 3 oz. 13.22 dr. to 151b. 7 oz. 2.09 dr.) of eggs 
in one day. The locusts are taken by means of a piece of 
stout cloth, carried by four persons, tAvo of AA'hom draAA^ it 
rapidly along, so that the edge may sweep OA'er the surkice of 
the soil, and the tAA'o others hold up the cloth behind at an 
angle of forty-fiA^e degrees.* This contrAance seems to oper¬ 
ate someAA'hat like a horse-rake, in gathering the insects into 
winroAvs or heaps, from wliich they are speedily transferred 
to large sacks. 
A someAA’hat similar plan has been successfully* tried in 
this countrA", as appears by an account extracted fi’om the 
“Portsmouth Journal,” and published in the “ Xew Eng¬ 
land Fanner.” f It is there stated that, in July, 1826, Mr. 
Arnold Thompson, of Epsom, XeAv Hampshire, caught, in 
one eA^ening, betAveen the horn’s of eight and tAA^elve, in his 
OAATi and his neighbor’s grain-fields, five bushels and three 
pecks of grasshoppers, or more properly locusts. “ His mode 
of catching them Avas by attaching tAvo sheets together, and 
fastening them to a pole, which Avas used as the fi’ont part of 
the drag. The pole extended beyond the width of the sheets, 
so as to admit persons at both sides to draw it foiw^ard. At 
the sides of the drag, braces extended from the pole to raise 
the back part considerably from the ground, so that the 
grasshoppers could not escape. After running the drag about 
a dozen rods Asdth rapidity, the braces were taken out, and 
* See Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, Vol. II. pp. 486-489. 
t Vol. V. p. 5. 
