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At iSavamiah I talked with several farmers from tlie surrouiiding 

 country and made a circuit of several miles to the west, north, and east 

 of the town to examine the fields. 



A farmer who had recently been in Holt county said there had been 

 some little damage a few weeks ago from grasshoppers working into 

 the edge of the winter wheat, sometimes a strip a rod wide being in- 

 jured; but the wheat had been retarded by dry weather more than by 

 grasshoppers. No grasshoppers were there now, and there had been, 

 he said, no young grasshoppers observed during the fall. None of the 

 parties talked with had known of any damage to amount to anything. 

 Some stated that grasshoppers Avere quite plenty in pastures and 

 meadows a few weeks before and, Avith dry weather, had shortened the 

 pasturage. I found in the lields practically the same conditions as in 

 Buchanan county. Nearly all of the species noted there were observed. 

 In one field of winter wheat I could see along the edges that the tips 

 of the leaves had been eaten oft' some time before, jirobably when but 

 little al)Ove the ground, but the wheat had evidently fully recovered 

 from whatever check may have been caused by the clipping. 



I Avas told that some damage had been reported in NodaAvay county, 

 and though it seemed probable that the conditions aa^ouUI prove the 

 same there 1 thought best to stop there long enough to make sure of 

 the situation. While en route for that county I talked Avith a man who 

 owned a farm at Oawood, in AndrcAvs county, Avho informed me that 

 grasshoppers had been more than usually plentiful in his pastures some 

 weeks before, but no young ones Avere seen. At Guilford the same 

 story Avas repeated and hasty examination showed conditions to be the 

 same as at preceding places. The fields of Avinter wheat seen from the 

 cars in passing showed no damage, though some were quite uniformly 

 thin, or the growth short. 



At Conception I was told that grasshoppers had been very plentiful 

 and had at one time done some injury to winter wheat adjoining grass- 

 lands, but they all disappeared some time ago. Only Aviuged ones had 

 been seen and my informant identified them as fenmr-ruhrmn, some 

 specimens of which I caught and shoAved him. M. (Jifferentialls, which 

 I also showed him, he said Avas not more common than usual, but he 

 thought the red-legged one much more abundant than usual. I found 

 both these species and atlanis common and observed numbers of dead 

 ones in the grass along the roadside or in the grass and rubbish under 

 fences. Here I found a single specimen of a rather young larva appar- 

 ently femur-ruhrum or atlanis, but nothing further to indicate any fall 

 hatching of eggs. 



Larvse of Tragocephala here, as elsewhere, were rather common. 

 Bissosteira was also present. 



In addition to the territory visited I learned from a man in St. Joseph 

 who lives in Clay county that grasshoppers injured clover and grass 

 there, but no young ones were noticed, which evidently indicates the 



