8 GRASSHOPPERS AND OTHER INJURIOUS INSECTS OF 1911 AND 1912. 



dry winds which prevailed in portions of the state during the summer make 

 it almost impossible to say exactly what percentage of the damage was due 

 to grasshoppers and what to these dry winds, yet to any one visiting as we 

 did all parts of the state, it was very appai-ent that the grasshoppers' share 

 of the damage was great. The oats, flax, wheat, barley and timothy were 

 seriously damaged and the crop much reduced in both quantity and quality. 



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 confined to soutliern portion of the State. Somes. 



In the southern portion of the state and in parts of the eastern portion 

 the grasshoppers were noted in serious numbers this season (1911) for the 

 first time, which can only mean that the grasshopper area is growing in at 

 least these two directions. This was true not only within the state but in 

 neighboring states, as in Iowa, the Dakotas, Nebraska and southern Wiscon- 

 sin. According to reports from people living in those places, the grasshoppers 

 also appeared there in numbers so great as to cause more or less alarm. 

 While it is always dangerous to attempt prophecy, yet it seems evident that 



