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hopiers, which for six weeks pnst have gradually made their way 

 EASTWARD^ appeared here in comparatively small numbers about two 

 weeks since. They are rather small brown insects, with red legs and 

 white wings, to the general observer differing from the ordinary 

 Grasshopper in nothing except their power of continued flight. A 

 gentleman from the upper part of this county reports that, on a road 

 running through his place, the Grasshoppers would be found, morn- 

 ing and evening, six inches deep, [in the ground? — B. D. W. ?] He 

 stated that their eggs were hatched after an incubation of several 

 days, and that a few days' growth gave distinct form to the young. 

 The female may be seen in large numbers on our roadsides in the 

 act of 'setting.' The tail of the insect, projecting downward and 

 backward, is found to enter a tubule in the sod, about 3^ of an inch 

 in depth and 3-lOths in diameter. Into this nest is deposited an egg- 

 sack of mucus, containing in uniform order 16 minute eggs of the 

 shape of an elongated bean. I send a pair of insects and several 

 nests of eggs." — Corresp. of KeokuJc (Iowa) Constitution. 



"Des Moines, Polk Co., Iowa, Oct. 30, 1867. — Myriads of young 

 Grasshoppers have been observed in the fields about here of late, 

 which of course must be the progeny of the flood of insects, which 

 first made their appearance here the latter part of September." — 

 Iowa Homestead. 



''Fort Calhoun, Nebrasha, Dec. 6, 1867. — Corn is about all in 

 crib and not very good. The Grasshoppers took the leaves about 3 

 or 4 weeks too early, which affected it about the same as an early 

 frost does." — "C R.," in Prairie Farmer, Dec. 21, 1867. 



"Nodoway Co., N. W. Missouri, about Nov. 1867.— The Grass- 

 hoppers made a raid upon us this autumn, but too late to do much 

 injury. We look for their appearance in the spring, when the eggs 

 deposited will hatch." — Monthly Rep. Agr. Dep., 1867, p. 365. 



"Woodson Co., Kansas, about Nov. 1867. — The 'Mormon locusts' 

 [Hateful Grasshoppers] made their appearance in this county on the 

 25th of September, and there was not suflicient cold weather to stop 

 their ravages upon the crops until the 29th of October, when the 

 thermometer fell to 24 degree? above zero. The consequence is 

 that they have destroyed all the wheat sown prior to their arrival." — 

 Ibid. 



"Dakota Co., Nebraska, about Nov. 1867. — The Grasshoppers 

 have left us, but their eggs have been deposited to be hatched out in 

 the spring."— /&i(^. 



"Hall Co., Nebraska, about Nov., 1867. — Grasshoppers have been 



