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Whitesboro’, lowa.—Month cold and backward ; grasshoppers still hatching 
out, though many have been destroyed by the cold rains. 
Jefferson City, Mo.—Wheat and oats fair; barley winter-killed; corn plant- 
ing going on; grafted peaches nearly all killed on Sth and 9th, but natural fruit 
along the rivers escaped. 
Harrisonville, Mo—lIce formed 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th, and on 7th many peaches 
were killed. 
Oregon, Mo—Ice formed on 2d, 3d, 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 13th, and on 5th 
spring wheat was badly injured; violets bloomed on 15th. 
Leavenworth, Kansas—Hard freeze on 2d, 5th, 10th, and apricots, many 
peaches, and some cherries were killed. 
Baxter Springs, Kansas.—Season medium, but rather dry ; crops all doing 
well; the Boughton wheat from Agricultural Department superior to all others. 
Law rence, Kansas —The heavy frosts of 2d, 5th, 7th, and 10th did not 
greatly injure fruit buds. 
Holton, Kansas.—Never a better prospect for grain and fruits ; never greater 
breadth sown 
Council erie Kansas.—Ice and frost on 2d, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 17th, 
18th, 20th ; rain on 11th, 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, yet peaches and other 
fruits are all in splendid condition. 
Elkhorn City, Nebraska—Month wet, somewhat cold, and quite windy; the 
rains have killed off successive hatchings of grasshoppers, but others come, and 
damage to growing wheat is reported in some places. Swallows appeared 20th ; 
robins 21st; ; plums i in bloom 30th. 
Dakota, Nebraska—Season three or four weeks earlier than in 1867, and 
wheat looks well, but grasshoppers are damaging it. 
Glendale, Nebraska—Much wheat entirely killed by hard freezing early in 
the month. Wild strawberries and blue violets bloomed 27th to 29th. Grass- 
hoppers are eating every green thing. No hopes for vegetables and grain. A 
neighbor put some newly hatched grasshoppers into water, and it froze solid 
over night; yet next morning, when thawed out, they hopped away as lively as 
ever. 
[Nore sy A. B. G.—What says our observer at Elkhorn City to this state- 
ment by Dr. Child? May there not be a certain stage of development of the 
eggs and of the hatched insect at which they can be drowned or frozen to death, 
while at other stages they defy death by water or frost? A few careful experi- 
ments, at different stages of growth, by our numerous correspondents, if reported 
to this department, mzght enable us to answer the oft and anxiously repeated 
question, what can we do to destroy them ?| 
NOTES OF THE CROPS, WEATHER, &c.—APRIL, 1868. 
Steuben, Me.—White frosts, 2d and 11th; snow, 2d and Sth; month remark- 
able for rains. 
West Waterville, Me—Six inches snow on 8th; plum and cherry blossom, 
26th; double the usual average of rain in May, and only one entirely clear day. 
Gor diner, Me. —Remarkably cold, wet month, more than 2° colder than the 
average of 32 years ; more moisture than average of same time, except May, 
1850; six inches of snow fell on the 8th. 
Lisbon, Me.—Bobolink on 18th; planting seriously delayed by the wet. 
Standish, Me—Farmers sowing wheat on 2d; frost 13th; chimney swal- 
lows, 26th ; strawberries bloom 28th. 
Norway, Me.—Month very wet, farming suspende ed on low lands. 
* Cornish, Me—From 13th to 26th, the “ May rain storm ;”’ more rain fell than 
I have ever known in the same time and season. 
