A Good Use for Grasshoppers.
Perry Wharton, a Gray County, Mo., ranchman, is buying up turkeys wherever he can find them.
“I want to feed them grasshoppers,” explained Mr. Wharton. “There isn’t any better turkey feed, and there’s plenty of it going to waste.”
Mr. Wharton explained that there are an unusual number of the big yellow-legged grasshoppers this year. They are not the kind that eat up crops, but nevertheless they are a nuisance, and do some damage.
“My plan is to pasture out several thousand turkeys and let them feed on the hoppers,” said he. “It will fatten them up in good shape and they will be ready for the Thanksgiving market, at very little expense, and at the same time be ridding the country of a pest.”