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hoppers are destroying the county. Montgomery: Came August 25. 
Have done no injury as yet, except in afew gardens. They seem un- 
easy asif they desired to leave. The wind has only been favorable for 
them one day since their arrival. Audubon; Came in clouds on the 
24th of August; are doing some damage on the corn and filling the 
ground with eggs. Guthrie: Coming on us during the last week by 
millions. Looks as if they intended to stay with us, and if they do our 
erops will suffer greatly. Pottawattamie : Made their appearance in 
strong force on the 23d of August. Have done considerable damage 
and are laying eggs in large quantities. Pocahontas: Have come and 
gone again without doing much damage except to gardens. Sac: The 
red-legged grasshoppers came about the 15th of August in such numbers 
as to materially injure our growing crops. 
MISsoURI.—Atchison; Are coming down upon us to-day in great 
numbers. 
Kansas.—Mitchell : Came from the north, the wind being from that 
direction, August 23. Began to come down at 9 in the morning, and 
by night the ground was literally covered with them. They commence 
to go into the crops as the sun goes down, on the south and west sides 
of the field. They are eating the blades off the corn, which is 
loaded with them, and the leaves off the trees. Early corn is now quite 
hard, and will not be seriously injured. Pawnee: Made their appear- 
ance August 24, coming from the northwest. Most of them passed over, 
but a few alighted, owing to the changing of the wind to the south. 
Corn is too far advanced to be injured, and they are not doing much 
harm except to gardens. Washington: Visited us August 24, at 11 
o’clock in the morning, coming from the northwest. So far they have 
alighted on about half of the county. They are stripping the blades 
from the corn, but appear to pay more attention to the process of incu- 
bation than feeding. The prevalence of a south wind has kept them 
here until to-day, (August 31.) The north wind is now blowing, and 
they are filling the air by the million, passing rapidly to the northwest. 
They have deposited no eggs, and done little damage. Hllis: A visit- 
ation from grasshoppers last week ruined the late corn, and injured all 
somewhat. Reno: Commenced to alight August 31, at 11 in the morn- 
ing, and are eating everything green. At 2 p. m. to-day, September 1, 
many of them flew away. They have almost ruined the late crops, 
especially corn. Norton: Have ruined the corn-crops. Barton: Ap- 
peared August 24 from the north, in vast swarms, and have destroyed 
all late corn and potatoes, beans, turnips, &c., and the wheat that was 
up. To-day, August 31, with a strong north wind, they are going south. 
They have made no deposit of eggs. Graham; Descended in clouds, 
and remained five days, destroying our corn, buckwheat, turnips, and 
gardens. Rice: Have returned, for the last week, in as great numbers 
as two years ago. The corn, except the late sod corn, which they have 
riddled, was out of their way. They have mostly left. Republic: Filled 
the air, August 24, when corn-fields were ravaged, and gardens disap- 
peared in an afternoon. We have the assurance that we shall raise our 
own grasshoppers next year, for initiatory steps are being taken to give 
usalarge supply. Butler: On the last day of August, I was in Wichita, 
Sedgwick County. About 4 o’clock p. m., a very large column of grass- 
hoppers passed over. In their flight they made a noise like the rattling 
of a train of cars. I do not know how far the column extended west, 
but it extended more than twelve miles east of Wichita. Their flight 
was toward the south. Although the main part passed over, enough 
stragglers were left in the valley of the Arkansas to eat every vestige of 
