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thus obtained, in smaller sums to those who possessed but little prop- 

 erty, and yet sufficient to secure a note for such an amount as would 

 be needful to supply their families and buy seed. 



On three occasions, in May and June, I visited the country around 

 Holden and Warrensburg, and publicly addressed the people at the 

 latter place. The better class of citizens were determined and hopeful^ 

 and the condition of the county, judged by the payment of taxes, 

 compared favorably with its condition in previous years, for in War- 

 rensburg township 132,000 were collected out of |39,000. 



Lafayette County. — Although lying on the eastern border of the 

 region visited by the locusts, this county shared largely in the general 

 affliction and distress. A correspondent of the Chicago Times under 

 date, Lexington, May 18, says: "The grasshoppers are on the move 

 east, eating everything green in their road. One farmer south of this 

 city had fifteen acres of corn eaten by them yesterday in three hours. 

 They mowed it down close to the ground, just as if a mowing ma- 

 chine had cut it. All the tobacco plants in the upper part of the 

 county have been eaten by them." Other advices show that many 

 neighborhoods were rendered destitute, and the want of seed for re- 

 planting was widely felt. No public measures of relief were adopted^ 

 so far as I have any knowledge, and it is probable that none were 

 necessary. 



Nodaway County. — In the St. Joseph Herald of June 3, there 

 appears a brief item from Graham, Nodaway county, under date May 

 29th, as follows : 



We have some locusts here, but they are doing: no serious damage to crops or 

 gardens in this immediate vicinity. Five miles north of here there are no locusts. 

 South of liere, in Andrew county, they are numerous, and in places are destroying" 

 crops and gardens. West ot here, in Holt county, they are not doing much damage, 

 except in tlie west part of the county, where they are sweeping everything in places. 

 Farmers are following after and replanting. 



This county appears to have been singularly fortunate, a fact 

 which may perhaps be accounted for by the large amount of timbered 

 land in the county, together with its prominent undulations of sur- 

 face. 



Newton County. — Few eggs were laid in this county, and no seri- 

 ous ravages are reported. 



Pettis County. — Only the western part of this county suffered, 

 and that not severely. 



Platte County. — Under date May 25th, a correspondent to the 

 St. Louis Republican thus describes the ravages of the insects in 

 this county : 



