YOUR ENEMY THE GRASSHOPPER Part 5

Description

A Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine film on grasshopper plagues. Shows dust storms in the Great Plains and abandoned farms, swarming grasshoppers among crops, devoured crops, and close-ups of five types of hoppers. Cattle are loaded into railway cars and shipped away due to lack of food. Charts grasshopper outbreaks from 1797. Farmers discuss grasshopper damage to their crops. Illustrates the grasshopper's life cycle. Shows favorable conditions for their hatching, some natural enemies, and men spraying poison from planes. Egg survey teams collect grasshopper eggs; officials print warnings of a plague; and state, federal, and local officials confer on measures to combat grasshoppers.

Collection

Records of the Extension Service

Series

Motion Picture Films