Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1931, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1931.° FVE STATES VAR ON GRASSHOPPERS Science Used to Fight Plague as Pests Eat Crops—lowa Appropriates $50,000. Br the Associated Press. | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, July 28— Bcience, apparently with its back to the | wall, was fighting today to stem the | tide of hordes of creeping. hopping and | Eying grasshoppers, which are pm_\-mzwI havoe with the crops of Minnesota, Towa, Nebraska, North and South Da- kota. " At Des Moines. the Iowa capital. plans were being made for a meeting of entomologists and agricultural lead- ers to devise means of combating the hordes of insects which have moved re- lentlessly across the Missouri River eastward. At the same time Iowa State officlals sought an appropriation of $50,000 to fight the plague. Farmers Fight With Poison. Meanwhile, militant farmers, armed with poison mixtures, returned to the fight. In some Minnesota counties the situation W%as so bad that other farm activities were suspended to leave the farmers free to war against the pests Which have penetrated fields, pastures and orchards, leaving them virtually bare cof green vegetation and harvest- ble crops. More than 150.000 acres in Kittson | and Marshall Counties in Northwest Minnesota have been nearly erased | from the harvest picture. Polk County | \s estimated to have suffered & 50 per | cent loss in grain crops. In a dozen ad- jacent counties the defense fight goes on. with local infestations reported in more than half of the counties in the State. These include corn, potato and onion, as well as grain-growing areas. A. G. Ruggles, State entomologist, who Is directing State efforts to assist the farmers, said that unless weather conditions shift from hot and dry de- struction will continue for many weeks and extend into a far wider zone. Just now weather conditions for the “hop- pers’! are ideal, he said. “Hoppers” Fed Lethal Bran. Bran, molasses and poisons are com- bined to form the ammunition of the defense. All sorts of farm machines have been equipped hurriedly with im- provised fittings to scatter the mixture in fields. Grasshoppers, tempted by the molasses, die within 24 hours after sampling the bran. Their fellows, who follow an instinct to feed upon the first unfortunates, reap their reward rauch quicker, 1$lilions are killed. Ruggles said, but fiillons arise to take their places, ad- vancing to the green fields ahead. Some areas regarded free of the pests at sun- down have been swarming with them the following noon. Sections in North Dakota report an increasingly wide belt of infestation, with damage less severe than in Min- nesota, Stop Up Auto Radiators. Motorists in_infested areas find it necessary to place clothes over radia- tors to prevent the ‘hoppers” from stopping air circulation. “Where the grasshopper comes from | no none knows.” said A. B. Funk, Towa | industrial commissioner at Des Motnes, | who recalled the extensive damage done | by a grasshopper invasion in 1874 to | 1877 “When they had done their work of | depredation, they disappeared, no one knows where or_why.” he said | Towa State officials said the Joss in | their State had not been as great as | in Ncbraska or South Dakota. In Nebraska 63 of the State’s 93 counties have been infested FLIES CASH TO WIFE | CLEVELAND'S OUTDOOR Pilot, Told She Needs $15, Dmps:OPERA OPENS TONIGHT Money to Her at Home. BOSTON, July 28 ().—Many a hys- band would like to have the advantages Tom Croce has. And many a wife | would like to have a husband as ac- | commodating as Croce. Croce is a commercial polit at the East Boston Alrport. 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