Riley Locust-Catcher

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One of the best known machines of its type, the Riley Locust-Catcher was employed to exterminate mass numbers of locusts plaguing fields. This device funneled locusts into a bag, sometimes containing poison, that would trap and kill the locusts.

Keywords

Riley Locust-Catcher, early pest control, agricultural devices, Charles Valentine Riley, locust extermination device

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Agricultural Machines, Disease and Pest Management

Source

Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1877 (Washington, District of Columbia: Government Printing Office, 1878) Plate X, after page 264

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