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destroyed at least 67 per cent. of the crops of this county. As near as 
I can find out, the column is about seventeen miles wide. They came 
in from the west by north. One of the finest crops we have had for ten 
or twelve years is destroyed. There is barely enough left to pay for 
reaping. Yesterday I cut barley that should have yielded fifty-eight 
bushels per acre, and I will scarcely get five. The heads are cut off and 
lying on the ground. Watonwan: Have destroyed the wheat-crops of 
the county. Yellow Medicine: In the counties Renville, Chippewa, and 
Swift, and parts of Kandiyohi and Yellow Medicine, oats.and barley are 
a complete failure, on account of the grasshoppers. Blue Earth: The 
western towns are alive with grasshoppers, but they have come rather 
late to seriously injure wheat or oats. 
Iowa.—Clay : The total failure of some crops, and the partial failure 
of others, is owing to the grasshoppers. Thousands of acres of grain 
and vegetables have been destroyed. They will be the cause of driving 
out many settlers. O’Brien: Came in immense swarms on the 27th of 
July. The destruction has already been very great, and they are still 
here. Siouw; The grasshoppers came down last week; corn is half 
destroyed, and unless they leave soon will be a total failure. Wood- 
bury: The grasshoppers have pretty generally destroyed corn through- 
out the Territory of Dakota. They have done some damage to the crop 
in the northwestern counties of this State, but have not visited this 
county. f 
Colorado.— Weld: Made their appearance August 1. One day and 
night served to strip corn, gardens, late oats, and buckwheat. To-day 
(August 2) they have nearly all gone from.here to the southeast. Corn 
being generally backward will be a total loss. Park: The prospect is 
that we shall not be troubled with grasshoppers. 
Montana.—Choteau : Have destroyed almost the entire grain-crop. 
All the wheat is gone. The stock-range has been also eaten to a great 
extent ; many spots are entirely bare. Jefferson: The decrease in crops 
arises from the ravages of grasshoppers. They have all gone southwest. 
Dakota.—Buffalo: The entire corn-crop has been eaten by the grass- 
hoppers. Wheat and oats, owing to the drought, ripened early, and 
were harvested in time to escape them. Clay: Have destroyed nearly 
all the corn, and about half the wheat and oats. They are now depos- 
iting eggs. It is the worst grasshopper raid ever known. Hanson; We 
are again visited by the everlasting grasshopper. They have been with 
us for the last four days, and have left nothing of corn and buckwheat 
but the naked stalks. Oats are badly damaged; wheat and barley were 
nearly harvested before they came, and potatoes and sorghum were 
slighted by them; but they went through the gardens like a whirl- 
wind. Minnehaha: Have made their appearance slightly, and have 
damaged some fields. Richland: Are now upon us. They came yester- 
day, August 1; a few days late. Gardens are all swept clean; not 
very much damage done to grain. Stutsman: Did but little damage 
except to oats, which they nearly destroyed. There are none here at 
resent. 
i New Mexico.—San Miguel: In the spring the grasshoppers did a great 
deal of damage to small grain in parts of the county. Taos: The 
grasshoppers continue their work of destruction in this valley. They 
have done great damage to the crops, but corn is doing well, as they 
have not touched it in the whole county. 
Pennsylvania.— Westmoreland, September 1; Did some injury to corn. 
Washington : Have injured pastures. 
Virginia.—Franklin ; Still damaging the tobacco. 
