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very thick again this season, but have done little damage. They have 

 deposited few eggs compared with the preceding year." — Ibid. 



''Page Co., Iowa, about Nov., 1867. — We have been visited this 

 autumn by the Grasshoppers, which have devastated gardens to con- 

 siderable extent, and even eaten the fruit from the trees. They were 

 particularly fond of peaches, in many instances eating the fruit en- 

 tire, leaving the pit [stone] on the tree. Nearly all the cabbage in 

 the county has been devoured by them, and the autumn wheat en- 

 tirely eaten up, my own being the only piece left in this section. The 

 earth is filled with their eggs." — Ibid. 



"Des Moines, Polk Co., Iowa, Jan. 8, 1868. — There come to us 

 from every direction expressions of great apprehension, about the 

 devastations of the Grasshoppers the coming season." — Iowa Home- 

 stead. 



When I was attending the Fair of our State Agricultural Society 

 in October, 1867, I got into conversation at my Hotel with Mr. C. 

 JVIcKee, of Cass Co., Illinois, who, as he informed me, had just re- 

 turned from a business tour through a great part of Iowa. From 

 this gentleman I learned that the Grasshoppers first invaded Iowa 

 about August 25th, and that they continued arriving till about the 

 end of September. ."They came," he told me, "with a westerly wind, 

 and were generally believed by the Iowa farmers to have originated 

 in Dacotah." He had met with them, or heard of them in the fol- 

 lowing counties of Iowa, and from the above Eeports of the Agricul- 

 tural Department we may add Adams and Page counties to the list; 

 all of which, as will be seen by the geographical student, lie in the 

 western half of the State, the most easterly point in the most easterly 

 counties (Polk and Warren) being no less than 115 miles from the 

 nearest point on the Mississippi Eiver: — Cherokee (also reported by 

 the Agricultural Department,) Woodbury, Ida, Sac, Calhoun, Greene, 

 Dallas, Guthrie, Adair, Madison, Warren, Clarke, Ringgold, Carroll 

 and Polk (Des Moines.) I may add that the Editor of the Iowa 

 Homestead, to whom I had forwarded a list of the above 17 counties 

 in Iowa, says in his issue of January 15, 1868, that he "thinks that 

 the territory named covers the extent of the Grasshopper-raid into 

 Iowa in the summer and fall of 1867." 



Of course, throughout the districts in Kansas, Missouri, Ne- 

 braska and Iowa, which liave thus been invaded by the Hateful Grass- 

 hopper in the autumn of 1867, the eggs laid by the females, except 

 the few that hatch out the same autumn, will mostly live through 

 the winter and hatch out in the spring of 1868; when, in all human 

 probability, the same partial destruction of the crops will take place. 



