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all our buckwheat, turnips, tobacco and most of the green fodder, and 

 all the young wheat that had been sown." — L. A. Alderson, in the 

 American Agriculturist, March, 1867. 



"Jackson Co., Missouri, March, 1867. — The Grasshoppers did 

 not make their appearance in this county until about the 1st of Octo- 

 ber, which was too late for them to do the amount of injury here 

 that was done further west. Fall wheat, young timothy, and other 

 kinds of tender grass were completely eaten off, and their eggs depos- 

 ited in multiplied millions.'' — "B.," in Country Gentleman, March 

 28, 1867. 



"Cass Co., Missouri, October 21, 1866. — We are overrun with 

 Grasshoppers, which apparently came here from Kansas. They are 

 destroying everything that remains green. They have completely 

 swept off our newly-sown wheat. They destroy all remaining vege- 

 tables, such as cabbage, turnips, etc. They even stopped our neigh- 

 bor across Grand River from boiling molasses ; for the old gentleman 

 said that they would persist all the time in jumping into his pan. 

 They made their first appearance about October 8th or 10th. After 

 they had been here some days, they commenced coupling and deposit- 

 ing their eggs in the ground. The eggs are encased in a small bag 

 composed of some gummy substance." — Private letter from J. M. App. 



"Savanna, Andrew Co., Missouri, December, 1866. — The people 

 of this county are greatly troubled to know, what the big lot of Grass- 

 hoppers will do next year. They did not do very much harm this 

 year, though their name was legion and they darkened the sky in 

 their passage." — Private letter from A. Kennicott, kindly communi- 

 cated by Dr. W. Stimpson, of the Chicago Academy of Science. 



"Clinton Co., Mo., November, 1866. — Grasshoppers have eaten 

 down into the ground every blade of green wheat that was sown this 

 autumn, so far as they have extended over the country. They came 

 from the west and are moving east as fast as they can, eating up all 

 vegetation. They are as numerous as chinch-bugs ever were in Illi- 

 nois, laying the ground full of eggs as they go. Cold nights seem to 

 affect them but little. They rise and fly the same as a bird, and 

 take very long flights." — "B. S.," in Prairie Farmer, November 24, 

 1866. 



"Stewartsville, Clinton Co., Missouri, Novem.ber 15, 1866. — The 

 Grasshoppers have completely overrun north-western Missouri this 

 autumn. They began to cross the Missouri River in September, com- 

 mg from Kansas and the far West. They came too late for this year'? 

 crops, save the autumn-sown wheat and rye, which have been entirely 

 swept away by them, except in some partial spots. They seem to be 



