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but its ravages the past year were reported over a far wider range of 

 country, and extended south to Texas and Arkansas and east to Vir- 

 ginia. Even in Kentucky, where it does not usually attract much 

 attention, Mr. John C. Noble, of Paducah, wrote me last June that the 

 corn in the western counties was being ruined by it. Any estimates 

 of the loss to the country at large must necessarily be crude, and the 

 figures would foot up till they would appear incredible. I shall there- 

 fore confine myself more particularly to 



ITS INJURIES IX IMISSOLllI IX 1874. 



From the detailed county returns in the Appendix the estimated 

 loss by counties may be stated as follows : 



Adair, $20,000 ; Andrew, $140,000; Atchison, $217,000; Barry, $80,000; Barton, 

 $100,000; Bates, $500,000; Benton, $350,000; Buchanan, $100,000; Butler, $120,000; 

 Caldwell, $125,000; Cape Girardeau, $10,000; Carroll, $550,000; Cass, $500,000; 

 Cedar, $278,000 ; Chariton, $000,000 ; Christian, $45,000 ; Clark, $50,000 ; Clay, $350,000 ; 

 Clinton, $300,000; Cole, $130,000; Cooper, $150,000; Crawford, $90,000; Dallas, 

 $50,000; Daviess, $400,000 ; DeKalb, $230,000; Douglas, $25,000; Dunklin, no bugs; 

 Franklin, $100,000; Gasconade. $05,000; Gentry, $220,000 ; Greene, $300,000 ; Grundy, 

 $125,000; Harrison, $255,000; Henry, $600,000; Hickorj% $180,000; Holt, $540,000; 

 Howard, $50,000; Iron, $180,000; Jackson, $450,000; Jasper, $230,000; Johnson, 

 $700,000 ; Knox, $30,000 ; Laclede, $45,000 ; Lafayette, $550,000 ; Lawrence, $210,000 ; 

 Lewis, $58,000; Linn, $100,000; Macon, $155,000; Madison, $27,000 ; Maries, $100,000; 

 Marion, $90,000; Mercer, $250,000; Mississippi, $15,000; Monroe, $280,000; Mont- 

 gomery, $100,000 ; New Madrid, $50,000; Newton, $85,000; Nodaway, $100,000; Ore- 

 gon, $10,000; Osage, $210,000; Ozark, $40,000; Terry, $50,000; Pettis, $300,000; 

 Platte, $100,000 ; Polk, $300,000 ; Pulaski, $75,000 ; Putnam, $100,000 ; Pvalls, $80,000 ; 

 Ilandolph, $20,000; Eay, $250,000; Pvipley, $40,000; St. Charles, $25,000; St. Clair, 

 $375,000; St. Francois, $100,030; St. Genevieve, $125,000; Saline, $450,000; Scotland, 

 $100,000; Scott, $50,000 ; Shelby, $50,000 ; Sullivan, $65,000; Taney, $45,000; Texas, 

 $70,000; Vernon, $225,000; Warren, $120,000; Washington, $100,000; Wright, 

 $60,000. 



The aggregate loss from these counties foots up, therefore, to 

 4^15,3-5,000. From the remaining 28 counties, either no reports have 

 been received, or they have been too meagre to form a basis on which 

 to estimate. Some of these counties are not thickly settled, but, esti- 

 mating by the census returns for 1870, and by the counties which have 

 reported, and which made similar returns, the loss to these 28 coun- 

 ties would amount to about $3,615,000 — making the total loss for the 

 State, nineteen million dollars ! 



These calculations do not include any other than the three staple 

 crops of wheat, corn and oats, and are based on the U. S. Census Keport 

 of 1870, and on average prices of 90c per bushel for wheat, 50c for 

 corn and 60c for oats. 



