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tained. The Press says that a full-grown Grasshopper was lately seen 

 marching off with a good-sized onion under each wing, another lying 

 across his horns, and with the tears streaming down his face, either 

 because he was not strong enough to carry more, or because the onions 

 he did carry were too strong for him." — N. Y. Sem. Tribune, July 9, 

 1867. 



"Jackson Co., Kansas, July 8, 1867. — Such crops as have escaped 

 the ravages of the Grasshoppers look well. The Grasshopper panic 

 seems at an end. The most of them have taken flight to the north 

 or north-west." — "Bani" in Prairie Farmer, July 30, 1867. 



"Padonia, Kansas, July 8, 1867. — The prospects for crops here 

 in north Kansas are very good now, notwithstanding the armies of 

 Grasshoppers that were hatched here. Winter wheat that was not 

 eaten up last fall is ready to cut. Spring wheat looks well; the 

 Grasshoppers have injured it but little here. Corn also looks well, 

 and, if the 'varmints' will only leave soon, will come out all right. 

 Some think the Grasshoppers are leaving the country; there are not 

 nearly as many now, as were hatched out last spring." — "Young 

 Farmer' in Prairie Farmer, July 20, 1867. 



"Missouri, about July 14, 1867. — Near St. Joseph the Grass- 

 hoppers have done some damage to the wheat, still the breadth sown 

 was large and there will be an average crop. In the Phille Purchase, 

 on the Western Border, the Grasshoppers have done great damage to 

 everything but hemp." — N. Y. Sem. Tribune, July 19, 1867. 



"Nebraska City, Nebraska, about July 14, 1867.* — In some lo- 

 calities the Grasshoppers have destroj^ed wheat, corn and garden vege- 

 tables clean. They have now finally left the State ; gardens have been 

 replanted and are doing well. Only the sandy portions of Kansas 

 have been visited by this insect. In Otoe Co., Nebraska, the Grass- 

 hoppers have commenced their ravages on wheat, and it is suffering. 

 Many fields will not be worth cutting, while corn is badly thinned. 

 In some places potatoes are completely stripped. Sorghum has suf- 

 fered much. Our gardens are eaten through and through. South of 

 us we hear much complaint, while a few miles west there is little 

 damage done, and in Cass Co., Nebraska the crops are very heavy." — 

 N. Y. Sem. Tribune, July 19, 1867. 



"Omaha, Nebraska, July 16, 1867. — The Grasshoppers have not 

 done as much damage in this State as was expected. Their ravages 



*In the original this item is not locally dated, further than as being 

 intelligence from Kansas and Nebraska; but as it manifestly proceeds from 

 the same pen as the third item which follows it here, I have given it the 

 same local date. Without that local date, it is measurably unintelligible. 



