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The Grange Advance
Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota
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A farmer abandoned small fruit experiments for commercial planting but suffered grasshopper damage to fruit trees and grape vines, nearly losing $500 worth. Discovered smoke repels them effectively for small areas like gardens and vineyards. Seedling raspberry and blackberry plants were unharmed.
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Loss of money made me relinquish experiments with small fruits, and plant for commercial purposes: but this, the first year that I could have made something the grasshoppers came, and have stripped the leaves from fruit trees and grape vines, leaving the fruit bare. It was no use to fight them, but I discovered that a little smoke drove them away. It is not a large fire, but smoke that sends them off. Had I known this four days ago I could have saved $500 worth of plants and fruit. As the grasshoppers will visit other places, I send this note on postal card, as I have not any stamps, hoping that it may enable some poor fellow to save a few dollars. It is not practicable on a large field, but is on a few acres. Hope this note may be the instrument of saving some gardens and vineyards. My seedling raspberry was not injured in the least, nor blackberry.
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grasshoppers stripped leaves from fruit trees and grape vines, leaving fruit bare and causing potential $500 loss in plants and fruit. smoke repels them for small areas. seedling raspberry and blackberry unharmed.
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Farmer switched to commercial planting of small fruits but faced grasshopper infestation in first profitable year. Discovered that a little smoke, not a large fire, drives grasshoppers away effectively on a few acres, gardens, and vineyards, though not practical for large fields.