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section of the county and that some of the wheat fields near there had been ahnost 

 entirely destroyed bj' the insect. 



Huichins, Tex., March 26. — Mr. A. W. Carnes writes to the News that he has just 

 returned from an examination of the wheat and oat fields upon the county farm, and 

 finds that the entire oat crop — 30 acres — and 15 acres in a wheat crop of 75 acres, 

 have been entirely destroyed. The bugs are still working upon the wheat, marching 

 from east to west, maintaining a straight line from north to south, as though they 

 were under the leadership of a trained tactician. 



Ennis, Tex., March 2G. — Mr. E. D. Champion, a farmer of Oak Grove, said to a 

 News correspondent that wheat in his community has been suffering froni an insect 

 pest, though it is coming out well since the recent rains. 



[Houston (Tex.) Post, March 29.] 



Sherman, Tex., March 28. — Holmes Colbert, one of the prominent Indian planters 

 of the Choctaw Nation, was in the city to-day. Colbert has 4,000 acres in wheat and 

 oats, and says the pest has appeared in the Indian Territory. 



[Fort Worth (Tex.) Register, March 31.] 



J. C. Martin, who lives at Eiverside and has recently been in the northern part of 

 the county, says that the damage there is not as great as recorded, although there 

 are many spots perfectly bare. 



D. ]M. Morgan, of the cotton belt, says the croj) is ruined between that j^lace and 

 Sulphur Springs, and between Dallas and Sherman, and also between this city and 

 Thurber. JMr. INIorgan says he has saved his own crop by cultivation with a weeder. 



]\Iilt Hampton, who was in from near Crowley yesterday, said that his crop of 200 

 acres was so badly damaged that he turned his cattle in on it and will plow up the 

 ground and plant cotton and some other crop. 



John Day, who was in from his farm in the northern part of the county, said that 

 he had not suffered much, but some of the crops in that portion of the county were 

 ruined. 



T. N. Bradburn returned Friday night from a week's trip up the Fort Worth and 

 Denver road, stopping at nearly all the stations between here and Iowa Park. He 

 says that up to a week ago the Panhandle had the finest prospects for a great wheat 

 crop, l)ut now the wheat has been greatly injured and in some places entirely ruined. 

 The bugs reached Wichita Falls on Tuesday last and now there are millions of them 

 laying waste the crops. Many fields, he says, between here and there are ruined. 



[Dallas (Tex.) News, April 2.] 



Denison, Tex., April 1. — AV. B. Chiles, a prominent farmer living near Pottsboro, 

 states that the grain-destroying insect is doing great damage in his section of the 

 country. They fly about late in the afternoon. At times the air is full of them and 

 they travel with the wind. They are now working especially on oats. 



J. W. Badgett, who lives east of Colbert, Chickasaw Nation, said: " I stated last 

 week that we had no signs of the insect, but the case has been reversed; this week 

 we have them, and by the thousands. They seem to be concentrating on oats, but 

 I believe that unless steps of precaution are taken, they will kill our corn before it 

 is old enough to escape them. I have been farming a long time, but I have never 

 seen anything like this w^ork on grain. I am going to make an experiment Monday. 

 I will run a harrow over my grain and then roll it with a heavy log. This will kill 

 the insects and even if our oats are killed l)y the remedy, we will thereby save our 



corn. 



[Dallas (Tex.) Herald, April 11.] 



Ehome, Tex., April. — The ravages-of wheat and oats insects are causing great depres- 

 sion of spirits among the farmers of this county. A large part of the wheat acreage 



