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one-half; oats, one-third — which would amount to several hundred thousands of 

 bushels of grain, and several hundreds of tons of hay without the loss of meadows, 

 for they have destroyed mine root and branch, besides a good manj^ others. — l. p. 



Ozark County. 

 3 — None. — t. j. g. 

 4 — About one-half the crops destroyed. — t. j. g. 



Perry County. 

 1— We have been troubled with them for eleven or twelve years. Some years they 

 do but little damage, and other years, generally dry seasons, they nearly ruin our 

 crops, especially late corn. About live years ago the bugs were very bad and the next 

 year we expected to have our crops entirely destroyed by them, but they had nearly 

 disappeared. Last Summer they were very bad, it being a dry season, and they dam- 

 aged corn very much ; wheat being very early escaped their injuries. — r. m. b. 



Pettis County. 



3— None. I have never seen your Keport ; have tried to get it but failed.— l, h, w. 

 No systematic efforts have been made to overcome its injuries. In regard to your Sec- 

 ond Keport, I have to say that probably not twenty copies have been distributed in this 

 county. 1 never saw one, nor have I heard it mentioned by a single farmer of the 

 county. Permit me to suggest that all your Entomological reports would be of vast 

 importance to the farmers if placed in their hands, either with or without the Agricul- 

 tural Reports. I have received two of them, and hoped to be able to secure them all as 

 fiist as published, but have been unable to do so — o. a. c. 



4— i think $5 per acre as the loss sustained by the corn crop alone would be a low 

 estimate.— L. h. w. The damage done by the Chinch Bug alone is alarming ; it cannot 

 be less than $300,000, including damage done to all kinds of crops. — e. c. The damao-e 

 done by them last year was great, but it is impossible to make anything like a correct 

 estimate, as the drouth did greater damage, and both were upon us at the same time. 

 In the south part of the county the oats and corn crops were entirely destroyed, while m 

 the northern part of the county, where the soil is deeper, not more than one-fourth of 

 a crop was raised. — o. a. c. 



Platte County. 

 4— Not less than $100,000.— j. a. 



Polk County. 



2— But little damage was done to the wheat crop, but the oats, corn and Hungarian 

 grass was badly damaged all over the county, and a great many fields entirely de- 

 stroyed. * * •" The farmers of this county are beginning to cutoff their corn and 

 pull the stalks whenever they can feed them to their stock, thinking in that way to 

 destroy their eggs, which they think are deposited in the husks and blades, and in fact 

 any kind of leaves or trash about the fences seem to be where they deposit their eggs. 

 —J. c. [This is of course a fallacy.] 



3— Plowing and dragging logs are the only means reported ; and but few copies of 

 the Report have been seen. 



4— $500,000. Do not know as these figures are near large enough ; would think 



),000 or $900,000 would be nearer the truth.—* * I think I am safe in saying that 

 the entire grain crop of this county was damaged one-half by the bugs.— t. \\\ s. Wheat 

 crop was not damaged much ; corn crop almost a total failure.— m. d. m. 



Pulaski County, 

 3— Nothing has yet been done to any extent to overcome its injuries. Your Sec- 

 ond Report has been read by the reading farmers of my county ; but a few copies have 

 been sent us.— c. c. There have been no systematic efforts made to overcome its icju- 



