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during 1868. That the insect was more or less injurious, in 1868, 

 throughout the region invaded the two previous years is proved from 

 various records of their hatching out, and their injuries around Salt 

 Lake City, Utah, and by the fact that the Red River settlement ap- 

 pealed to the Canadian Government for aid, on account of their de- 

 vastations during that year. They are reported as having been quite 

 numerous in Andrew, Cedar, Clinton, Daviess, Gentry, Jackson, Nod- 

 away in our own State, by the different correspondents who replied to 

 my circular. They also attracted some attention in Kansas during 

 the fore part of August, and during the preceding month in Iowa and 

 JVIinnesota.* 



In 1869 there were still some remnants left of the 186T invasion. 

 I received some from Leavenworth, Kansas, sent in a tin box, and in 

 reaching me there was but one left, which, having eaten up the others, 

 was master of the situation. They hatched out in countless numbers 

 from the 20th to 24th of March, in Holt county, Mo.,f and were destruc- 

 tive east of Nemaha county, Kansas ; but the following items from the 

 Prairie l^armer "Record of the Season," will indicate how more and 

 more impotent they became : 



Great numbers of the " Eed-Leorf?ect Locust " — ^grasshoppers — have hatched out 

 this Spring, but have done very little harm thus far, their ravages being' almost wholly 

 confined to the more tender garden vegetables. — [c. w. d., Saline county, Kansas, June 



22, 18G9. 



The "hateful grasshoppers" are very bad in sandy districts, and, when full 

 fledged, they will visit every farmer, and talvc their portion. — [c, Denver, Col., July 

 'G, 1869. 



Grasshoppers all left as soon as they could fly, and there has no new crop come in 

 since. Apples were not injured liere ; peaches Avere, to some extent, but there will be 

 a fair yield. Wild fruits ot all l^inds are abundant. — [j. w. c. Brown county, Kansas, 



August 16, 1869. 



The grasshoppers hatched out here last Spring, but did very little damage ; they 

 all left as soon as tiiey could fly, and I hope it will be long before they pay us another 

 visit. There is not much fruit raised here yet, but what there is is pretty good. — [w. s. 

 •s., Page county, Iowa, September 4, 1869. 



The following letter, communicated to me, August 27, 1869, by S. 

 K. Faulkner, M. D., of Whitesville, Andrew county, Missouri, will 

 show that they were also lingering in our own State: 



I did not answer your letter requesting more specimens of tlie Colorado Grass- 

 hoppers witli parasites, because tliey had lelt us, and now there is not one to be found. 

 "We liad quite a stock of grasshopper eggs left us last Fall, wliicli hatched, and in the 

 timbered bcction and where the ground was smooth and hard, as '• sod " or prairie that 

 was plowed in the previous June, and not afterward plowed, tliey destroyed most of the 

 wheat. But deep plowing in the Spring or late in Autumn puts them down, at least 

 delayed tliem, and 1 think they never hatch. 



* Am. Entomologist I, p. 74. 



t W. L., in Journal of Agr., St. Louis, Apr. 17, 1869. 



