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Montgomery county, Arl:ansas—The wheat was nearly all destroyed in this 
county last fall by grasshoppers. A few acres were sown after they left or 
died, say about Christmas, which looks tolerably weil, for late sowing. 
Montgomery county, Iowa—The grasshoppers are using up the wheat and 
oats; not so bad on the corn. 
Warren county, lowa.—The grasshoppers destroyed at least two-thirds of 
the winter wheat, beginning their ravages about the 5th of October last. We 
have them here now in great numbers, yet vegetation is not much injured. 
Washington county, Nebraska.—The grasshoppers are doing a great deal of 
damage in this county. 
Dakota county, Nebraska—The grasshoppers have hatched out in myriads. 
The farmers are much alarmed; some of them predict almost the entire destrue- 
tion of the wheat crop. 
Douglas county, Nebraska —This has been a season favorable to the ae 
ing and growth of spring crops, but the presence of grasshoppers deterred 
planting to some extent. At this date they appear to threaten serious damage. 
Shawnee county, Kansas—The grasshoppers destroyed most of the wheat 
last fall. 
Crawford county, Iowa.—Grasshoppers have destroyed all wheat sown on 
new ground. Fears are entertained that they will take the whole crop this 
season. 
Madison county, Iowa—The grasshoppers are eating some wheat on new 
ground; not doing much damage to other crops yet, but are numerous, 
Audubon county, lowa.—Spring wheat is our dependence, and the present 
prospect is very dubious, as the grasshoppers are taking all before them. Some 
wheat fields are wholly destroyed; corn not yet so badly eaten; gardens used 
up. What the result will be none can now guess. 
Harrison county, Iowa.—The grasshoppers continue their ravages in this part 
of the west. They are still hatching out. The new-ground, or “sod wheat,” has 
suffered most. They have not injured corn to any extent, nor do they eat 
sorghum. 
Harrison county, Iowa—The grasshoppers came here last August by the 
million, and deposited their eggs all over the country. These have been hatch- 
ing from the first thawing of ‘the ground, the last of April, till the present time. 
Those hatched earliest seemed to be killed by the cold rains, but such as have 
hatched since the rains are growing and eating gardens, fruit, and crops of every 
kind ; but they are scattered alike over farms, open prairie, and groves. If they 
should flock to the cultivated lands there are enough of them here to consume 
the whole crop. Some farmers are ploughing up “their wheat land to plant in 
corn, hoping that the grasshoppers may leave in time to permit the making of 
a crop of corn. 
Conejos county, Colorado—Countless millions of minute grasshoppers are 
here, and, in fact, throughout the San Luis Valley, and are destroying every- 
thing green as fast as it makes its appearance above ground. ‘The farmers here 
have become discouraged, and have lost all hope of raising anything the present 
season, arguing that these minute grasshoppers cannot well leave here until 
they have wings, when it will be too late to raise a crop. 
Utah county, Utah.—Grasshoppers doing great damage in this county to 
wheat and fruit trees. 
Box Elder county, Utah—Apple trees were injured by grasshoppers last 
summer; many bloomed the latier part of summer, When putting out new foli- 
age, after the grasshoppers had passed. 
Jefferson county, West Virginia.—The 17-year locusts are beginning to make 
their appearance. 
De Kalb county, Alabama.—There are millions of locusts in our forests, the 
same species that we had in 1856, I think it was. 
