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"Kansas City, Missouri, June 2Q, 1867. — The Grasshoppers have 

 taken up their line of march. Yesterday afternoon they were pass- 

 ing over the city in such millions, that it looked like a furious snow- 

 storm raging in the heavens. They appeared to be at various heights 

 — some seemed only like white masses against the blue sky, and others 

 low down were lighting on the house-tops. They were going north- 

 east." — Kansas City Advertiser. 



"Peru, Nehrasl-a, about June 30, 1867. — In October last the 

 Grasshoppers came from the north-west, and covered this country and 

 deposited their eggs. In the spring they began to hatch, and they 

 have done much damage to the crops. Wheat and oats are mostly 

 destroyed, and they are now working on the corn. At the end of the 

 month they began to take wing, and soon the air became so filled with 

 them that they appeared like fleecy clouds." — Monthly Rep. Agr. Dep., 

 1867, p. 270. 



"Holton, Kansas, June 30, 1867. — June .5th, Grasshoppers de- 

 stroying the gardens in town; June 10th, [wingless individuals] pass- 

 ing by the million south-east; June 28th, on the wing, going north- 

 north-east with the wind by the million; June 30th, getting scarce; 

 supposed to be done here, or nearly so, unless they come from some 

 other place. Some fields of wheat are eaten up, while others are not 

 h.mV~Ibid., pp. 269—270. 



"JeffersonCo., Kansas, July 1, 1867. — A great deal has been said 

 in the papers of this and other States of the devastation by Grasshop- 

 pers, but I have had good opportunity of noticing through this County 

 and State, and consider the injury to wheat and rye to be not more 

 than l-20th of the crop. They are now flying, and ten days will re- 

 lieve us of them in a great measure ; and the injury by them has not 

 been 1 -100th part of what was anticipated three months ago." [Then, 

 sir, your folks must have expected to lose l-20th of their wheat and 

 rye multiplied by 100, or 500 per cent, of the entire crop I ! t 

 B. D. \Y.'\—N. Y. Se7u. Trib. July 16, 1867. 



"Oregon, Missouri, July 1, 1867. — Farm and garden produce 

 much injured by Grasshoppers." — Monthly Rep. Agr. Dep., 1867, p. 

 305. 



"Omaha, Nebraska, about July 3, 1867. — Grasshoppers are said 

 to be very destructive to wheat and cereals south of the Platte River 

 as far as St. Joseph, Missouri." — Chicago Tribune, July 6, 1867. 



"Leavenworth, ICansas, about July 4, 1867. — In many parts of 

 this State no Grasshoppers are reported, and the general testimony is 

 that the crops never were ])etter. They are having a high old time with 

 Grasshoppers in Atchison Co., and fears for the onion crop are enter- 



