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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22610, 16 January 1939, Page 10

To harvest the grasshoppers before they harvest his grain, a Nebraska (United States of America)) farmer has built an insect trap of an old hog trough mounted on the front of his cat*. Every night he drives over a field with a spotlight on the front to attract the hoppers, and in a single week ha collected 9901b of dead grasshoppers from a five-acre field. Counting a sample, he estimated the week’s catch at 792,000 of the pests. The hog trough, 10 feet long, 10 inches wide, and six inches deep, was fastened to the frame of the car with two by four wood, and a piece of old signboard tin, 30 inches high, was used as a “bangboard.” Five gallons of water and two quarts of old crankcase oil were used as a lethal solution in the trough, and baffles made of iron sheets kept it from splashing out.