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Waseca, Minnesota. — Expecting great crops. 



Stevens, Minnesota. — Prospects charming. 



Steele, Minnesota. — Crops promising. 



Su-'ift, Minnesota. — Crops generally good, except corn. 



Jones, loica. — Prospect not encouraging. 



Des Moines, Iowa. — Not very flattering. 



Grundy, Iowa. — Two weeks more of rain would be fatal. 



Cass, Iowa. — Prospect of small grain unprecedented. 



Johnson, Iowa. — All crops in splendid condition. 



Ozark, Missouri. — No impediment in farming this year ; no chinches or 

 grasshoppers ; crops mostly in fine condition. 



Oreene, Missouri.-;-Thii lengthened visage of the farmer broadens. 



Camden, Missouri. — Agricultural outlook flattering ; wool-raising and 

 tobacco-raising rapidly increasing. 



Johnson, 2lissouri. — The grasshopper scourge is terrible, reducing the 

 best farmers to absolute want. Stock has been driven to more favored 

 sections to graze. Not a particle of hay or straw, except prairie hay, 

 can be had for fodder for the coming winter. Farmers are putting in 

 an increased acreage of corn-fodder. Clover and timothy meadows 

 killed dead ; grapes and flax all destroyed. Not a bunch of lettuce, a 

 carrot, a cucumber, a pumpkin, or other vegetable is left. The rich aiid 

 fruitful county of Johnson, second to none in the State, is ruined. 



Randolph, Missouri. — Except wheat, there was never known a better 

 crop prospect. 



Perry, Missouri. — Everything looks well. 



Clay, Missouri. — Crops destroyed by grasshoppers. We can scarcely 

 realize the humiliation of our rich and fertile county ; a degree of desti- 

 tution unknown before. 



Wayne, Missouri. — If it continues seasonable, we will raise more than 

 in the last three years. 



Pemiscot, Missouri. — Finest prospects for abundant crops for many 

 years. 



Jaclison, Kansas. — Farmers seeing hard times for eatables, except flour j 

 grasshoppers took the gardens. 



Furnas, Nebraska. — Poor farming has caused the south slopes to dry 

 out, reducing the total condition of the crop. Good farming on the 

 north slopes shows good average condition. 



Dixon, Nebraska. — Crops all looking very finely ; promise an abundant 

 yield, especially wheat. 



Sonoma, California. — Taken together, crop prospects are more than 

 fair. 



Sacramento, California. — On the 6th of April we had a severe freeze, 

 "which killed vegetable and fruit crops, and severely injured grain-crops; 

 that, together with drought and north winds, has been disastrous to the 

 farming interests. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL RECORD. 



By Townend Glover, Entomologist. 



Insect injuries. — A few very destructive species of insects are 



noted by our correspondents as ravaging the crops in dift'erent parts of 



the country. Of these the most prominent zlvq tho^ grasshoppers, {Cal- 



optenus sp.) The well-known species C. femur-rubrum, or red-legged 



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