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quantities, and are lively, industrious, and persevering. I think they 

 will take all the wheat, oats and corn, if they do not leave soon. 

 Farmers are very much discouraged. — "W. A. C," in Prairie Farmer, 

 June 23, 1867. 



"Leavenworth, Kansas, about June 15, 1867. — The Grasshoppers 

 are doing great damage on both sides of the Missouri Eiver for a dis- 

 tance of 100 miles. Gardens and corn-fields are being devastated." — 

 EocTc Island (III.) Union, June 30, 1867. 



''Missouri, about June 15, 1867. — The Grasshoppers have greatly 

 injured the crops in Missouri." — Corresp. of Chicago Tribune. 



"Nebraska City, Nebraska, about June 16, 1867. — The Grasshop- 

 pers, although hatching in countless millions, seem to scatter and 

 disappear." — N. Y. 8em. Tribune, June 21, 1867. 



"Leavenivorth, Kansas, about June 16, 1867. — Something more 

 than a week ago a farmer of this county informed us that the wing- 

 less Grasshoppers were gradually moving in a southerly or south- 

 western direction, and were averaging from a tenth to an eiglith of 

 a mile per day. We thought he might be mistaken, and mentioned 

 it to one or two others, who, to decide it, determined to closely ob- 

 serve them for a week. They informed us yesterday that there is no 

 mistake about it, and that all the young ones that are large enough 

 gather in large bodies and steadily proceed south. One gentleman 

 closely observed a particular body, and in a week's time they had 

 progressed over two miles, which is doing pretty well, considering it 

 was done by short hops. It does not seem to be for the purpose of pro- 

 curing food, as they pass through a field of spring grain or other good 

 pasture, as speedily as over naked plowed land. A field will be full 

 of them one day, and the next not one can be found in it, except per- 

 haps an occasional couple or stray. It is a curious movement, and 

 worthy the attention of persons who are fond of investigating the 

 mysteries of nature." — Leavenworth Tribune. 



"Leavenworth, Kansas, June 25, 1867. — The Grasshoppers are 

 making a clean sweep of every green thing in the gardens, throughout 

 the southern and western portions of the city, and on the country 

 farms beyond, so far as we have been able to hear. Millions filled the 

 air yesterday, from 11 a. m. to sundown, without any apparent dim- 

 inution of the numbers on the ground. As fast as their wings are 

 developed, they take flight; and their course is steadily south-east. 

 It will require a couple of weeks for all of them to become fully 

 fledged, as those now here vary in growth from the size of a very 

 small fly to that of the matured hopper. In the meantime, in this 

 vicinity, the devastation of crops and vegetables is general and com- 

 "plete." -^Leaven worth Bulletin. 



