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Silver Creek, Mer?-ick Co. — Goino: northwest. 



Gilmo7-e, Sarpy Co. — Billions going north. 



Elkhorn, Douglas Co. — Going north. 



Chapman, Merrick Co. — Going north. 



Lone Tree, Mei-rick Co. — Going north for two days. 



McPherson, Lincoln Co. — Going northwest. 



■Gibbon, Buffalo Co. — Going with wind for last two weeks. 



Schuyler, Colfax Co, — A few going north. 



Grand Islaiid, Hall Co.— Going northwest for the last few days. 



In three or four of the counties where the young had most 

 abounded and where migrating swarms had most frequently settled, 

 the loss of crops was estimated at from 25 to 30 per cent., but averag- 

 ing the State at large it did not, at an outside estimate, amount to 5 

 per cent., and according to the (}m2Lh3i Herald of July 16th: "The 

 local damages were more than equalized by the additional acreage 

 under cultivation and the increased yield of all products in other 

 parts of the State." 



August 10th it was reported from Laramie City that vast clouds 

 of locusts were flying southward; but nothing further was heard of 

 them from any quarter. 



Iowa.— Very ievf locusts hatched during the Spring of '75 within 

 the limits of this State. On the 26th of May they were reported in 

 considerable numbers in a few localities on the southwest boundary. 



The first serious incursions from the south were made about the 

 10th of June, and from that date to about the middle of July, the 

 western counties suffered considerably from the swarms that were 

 almost constantly passing over, many of which alighted and remained 

 from twenty-four to forty-eight hours in a place, making sad havoc 

 in corn fields, gardens and nurseries. Eye, wheat and oats were also 

 damaged to some extent. From the counties of Mills, Tremont and 

 Council Bluffs a loss of 25 per cent, was reported. Near Red Oak they 

 settled in such vast numbers that the railroad trains were stopped by 

 the oiling of the track with their crushed bodies. 



Minnesota. — During the Spring of 1875 locusts occurred pretty 

 generally throughout the western part of the State, especially in the 

 region south of the Northern Pacific Railroad. They seem to have 

 been most numerous and destructive in Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicol- 

 let, Brown, Sibley, Sterns, McLeod and Watonwan counties. In some 

 of these counties generous bounties were offered for the bodies of 

 the young hoppers, and a vigorous warfare was, in consequence, waged 

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