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that was experienced in the spring and summer of 1867 throughout 

 the districts invaded in the autumn of 1866. But there is not the 

 least reason to anticipate, as the writers of man}^ of the above extracts 

 evidently do, that these Grasshoppers have become a permanent insti- 

 tution in that section of country. Likely enough these districts may 

 not be again invaded by their little foes from the Eocky Mountains 

 for the next ten or twenty years. When in October. 1866, in the col- 

 umns of the Practical Entomologist, I stated that it was not at all 

 probable that the Grasshopper plague would be continued in Kansas 

 and Nebraska beyond the summer of 1867, I did so with the distinct 

 proviso, "unless fresh swarms should descend upon those countries 

 from Colorado.'' (Vol. II., p. 5.) Since, however, I am now writ- 

 ing more especially for the citizens of Illinois, it is not necessary to 

 dwell further upon this subject. 



But Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa were not the only 

 States on this side of the Rocky Mountains, that were invaded by 

 Grasshoppers in the autumn of 1867. Nearly a dozen counties in 

 Texas have suffered in the same manner and at the same time, and 

 probably from the same species of Grasshopper, the portions of the 

 State that lie at the greatest distance from the Rocky Mountains 

 having been apparently not infested by these insects. I give below 

 all that I have been able to collect on the subject. 



"Greenville, Hunt Co., N. E. Texas, about Dec. 24, 1867. — Since 

 the <ieparture of those few dozen Grasshoppers, our farmers have 

 begun to sow wheat in real earnest. The damage done by that same 

 set of Radical bugs is not so great as was anticipated." — Greenville 

 Independent. 



"Dallas Co., N. E. Texas, ahout Nov., 1867.— The Grasshoppers 

 made their appearance here on October 17th, the air being filled with 

 them. They appeared to be coming from the west, and traveling east. 

 They have literally eaten every green thing, and in places where they 

 got to the wheat that was being sown, they devoured the grain. 

 About two-thirds of them have disappeared, and I think all will leave 

 in a few days."— Monthly Rep. Agr. Dep., 1867, p. 364. 



"Fannin Co., N. E. Texas, ahout Nov., 1867.— The Grasshoppers 

 made their appearance about two weeks ago, but have done little or 

 no injury yet. There is a general disposition to withhold seeding 

 until they entirely disappear." — Ibid., p. 365. 



"Red River Co., N. E. Texas, about Oct., 1867.— We have now 

 in this county, for the first time in my recollection, a visitation of 

 Grasshoppers, which are devouring everything they can make food 

 of, and I fear they will destroy all the wheat put into the ground. 

 Sowing will be suspended until they disappear." — Ibid., p. 365. 



