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through to the southern part of Kansas. We learn that they are at 

 work upon the wheat in Kansas already, and are making their appear- 

 ance in vast numbers in the southern part of this State, and as far 

 north as Weeping Water." — Omaha Republican. 



"Kansas, about May 24, 1867. — The Grasshoppers are already 

 hatching out in vast numbers, and are devouring the winter wheat." 

 ' — Iowa Homestead, May 20, 1867. 



"Leavenworth, Kansas, about May 25, 1867. — The Grasshoppers 

 are hatching throughout the country in myriads, and the same ac- 

 counts come from other portions of the State. Within a mile of 

 town considerable damage to spring wheat has been sustained, and 

 below u&, on the Delaware Reserve lands, their ravages are becoming 

 serious. The leaves of the White Willow they seem particularly par- 

 tial to, as they have stripped the young trees bare. They are not yet 

 able to fly, but it is evident that tliey are good eaters." — Leavemvorth 

 Conservative. 



"Manhattan, Kansas, about May 25, 1867. — The Grasshoppers, 

 which have been the terror of our farmers for weeks, proving them- 

 selves impervious to water, fire and frost, are now finding an enemy 

 we make haste to welcome as an ally. We refer to the beautiful black- 

 birds, immense flocks of which are luxuriating upon the hoppers, and 

 returning thanks in exultant notes, and from throats almost splitting 

 with joy." — Manhattan Independent. 



"Kansas and Missouri, about June 6, 1867. — As regards Grass- 

 hoppers in Kansas and Missouri, of which innumerable eggs were 

 deposited last autumn, and which greatly discouraged farmers, we 

 learn that these eggs hatch out, and that in two or three days the 

 Grasshoppers disappear." — N. Y. Sem. Tribune, June 11, 1867. 



"Nebraska, about June 6, 1867. — Papers south of the Platte, 

 where the Grasshopper plague was threatened, announce that the re- 

 cent storm has cleaned the pest out wherever it prevailed. The Ne- 

 maha (I*^ebraska) Courier states, that great numbers of black-birds, 

 plovers and other varieties of birds are gulping down the young 

 Grasshoppers by wholesale quantities." — Ibid. 



"St. Joseph, Missouri, June 8, 1867. — The [wingless] Grasshop- 

 pers, after doing serious damage to crops in this vicinity, are leaving 

 — going west and southwest." — Prairie Farmer, July 13, 1867. 



"Jaclson Co., Kansas, about June 10, 1867. — The Grasshoppers 

 threaten the crops; saw wheat-crops entirely ruined. Spring back- 

 ward. Small grains look well where the Grasshoppers have not made 

 their appearance." — "W. M.," in Prairie Farmer, June 15, 1867. 



"Ottawa, Kansas, about June 10, 1867.— When the Grasshoppers 



