﻿60 SEVENTH ANNUAL RhPORT 



Gasconade County. 



3 — No gystematic efforts have been made for their destruction. Your Keport is 

 almost unknown in our midst ; I manaored to get one eopj'. 



4 — Tiie estimated loss on corn and wheat occasioned by these bugs during the 

 year 1S74 will probably reach $55,000 or $00,000. The loss on sugar cane is not known, 

 say $3,000 or more, as they are particularly fond of it; sometimes destroj' the whole 

 ■crops.— H. R. 



Gentry County. 



3 — There has been no settled plan among the farmers to check the ravages of the 

 bug. Your Second Keport has never been circulated in this county. — a. j. c. None. 

 Nothing known of your Second Report. — L. L. No cftbrt made to overcome its injuries. 

 Don't know of a copy of the Agricultural Keport for 1869 in the hands of a farmer. — 

 H. s. No systematic efforts have been made. Have never heard of your Report. — 

 w. H. R. No. — . It is not in this part of the county. — h. w. j. No systematic 

 efforts were made. Your report is little known. — j. a. im. No. Never saw it. — b. b. 



4 — 1 could not pretend to approximate the losses. They were terrible. — a. j, c. 

 The damage this year has been very great ; at the least value fully one-half of the corn 

 and near]}' all the Spring wheat and a great portion of the Fall wheat was ruined. — l. l. 

 They have destroyed at lea^t nine-tenths of the Spring wheat, one-sixth of the Fall 

 wheat and one-sixth of the corn; oats, one-tenth. — w. h. r. Tiiis year's crops were 

 injured 30 per cent. — ,j. a. m. Cannot do it, but will inform you that all Spring wheat 

 was destroyed, and also one-quarter of corn. — e. b. The past Summer they destroyed 

 nearly all the Spring wheat, many fields having never been cut, wliile many fields that 

 were cut did not pay for the cutting, Hungarian grass suffered in about the same ratio 

 as Spring wheat. Corn was badly damaged in places, slightly in others.— j. s. 



Greene County. 



3 — None, except to plow ditches between the wheat and corn and drag a log in 

 them. Don't know of a farmer that has one of your Reports. — s. a. e. 



4 — Corn five-tenths lost ; wheat but little damaged ; oats and hay one-half 

 lost. — s. A. E. 



Grundy County. 



3 — No systematic efforts have been made, and your Report is but little known. It 

 is the general practice here to put out large corn crops, ciierish great expectations, and 

 see them devoured by these hungry pests. Spring barley is doomed to certain destruc- 

 tion, and no inconsiderable amount of wheat is thus animally lost. I have, indeed, 

 sometimes heard farmers advocate clearing fence corners and burning corn-stalks to 

 give them nothing to Winter under, but always concluding that as long as the rest 

 don't fall in it is perfeclly useless to trouble themselves about it. — v. b. No. Your 

 Eeport is little known ; say 10 copies in county. — G. h. h. 



4— The average damage sustained by the corn crop was at least GO per cent. ; of 

 the wheat crop about 25 per cent. — v. b. $50,000 .is a moderate estimate. The corn 

 crop was nearly ruined by them. — g. h. h. 



ffarrlso7i County. 

 3 — No. Not distributed among farmers generally. — c. n. v. No. Very little, I 

 think. — J. H. B. None have been made. Your Report is not known in this neighbor- 

 hood. — s. Ji'c. To my knowledge, none have been made. My idea is that if any of 

 your Reports of 1S69 were sent to this county, they were distributed amongst the mer- 

 chants and mechanics, and not among those that would be benefited by getting them. 

 — c. V. F. None have been made, and your Report is not much known among farmers. 

 — w. R. 



