﻿68 NINTH ANNUAL REPORT 



for all holes left by the female are more or less completely empty, since whenever ovipo- 

 sition has taken place, the hole is filled up. 



Locusts, or "grasshoppers," were reported as quite troublesome in Ste. Genevieve 

 and other eastern counties, but they were invariably the common Red-legged species 

 ( femw-ruhrian). 



Andrew Co. — If you draw a line about five or six miles west of the One Hundred 

 and Two River and Savannah, about due north and south, it will show the extreme 

 eastern boundary of the locust this year in this county. It will show you, at its northern 

 extremity, a strip of about eight miles east of the Nodaway River infested; while at 

 its southern point it will be only about two miles. A great many eggs are there depos- 

 ited, but not so many as were left two years ago ; nor is there so much alarm felt now 

 as then. The locusts arrived late, yet in time to eat up Fall wheat before the frost 

 arrested their progress. Where 1 live — four miles east of Bolckow — there were no 

 locusts and no eggs, and we do not feel much alarm for next year 



Bolckow, Mo., Nov. 26, 187G. R. H. TALBOT. 



The locusts visited this county in the Fall, but only the western part. It was late 

 in the Fait when they came. They laid some eggs, but they did no great damage. 

 Whitksvillk, Mo , Dec. 1, 1876. J. F. SMITH. 



The locusts flew into Andrew county in large numbers. They did not go farther 

 east than the center of the county ; but in the northwest and western parts they depos- 

 ited their eggs in great numbers, and the prospect is that next year the supplv will 

 exceed the demand. JOHN K. WHITE. 



Flag Springs, Mo., Dec. 9, 1876. 



The grasshoppers were in the northwest part of this county and did some damage 

 to wheat crops. They deposited some eggs. Injury from them in the Fall was 

 small. J. KIMBERTIN. 



Rochester, Mo , Dec. 18, 1876. 



Atchison Co — The locusts commenced to drop here the first day of September, 

 coming from the north with the first north wind we had for some time, and commenced 

 depositing their eggs on the fourth, staying with us till the wind got in the north 

 again, when many would leave every clear morning, but only to be replaced in the 

 evening by others. Though their numbers have greatly diminished in the last few 

 days, timothy meadows, pastures, gardens and all available places are full of eggs, in 

 many instances from three to five thousand to the square loot ; Fall wheat and turnips 

 are eaten off close to the ground, and what timothy is not alreadv destroyed, will surely 

 be in the Spring when the eggs hatch. C. E. TREAD WELL 



RocKPORT, Mo., Sept. 10, 1876. 



[Dispatches from various p^rts of the' county show that during the early part of 

 September the insects continually came from the N. W.,but poured down in increased 

 numbers on the 11th. By the middle of October the unusually warm weather had 

 about that time caused many of the eggs to hatch.] 



The Rocky Mountaiij Locusts came upon us in September and October. The only 

 damage done by them was to the Fall wheat and rye. They covered the en tire county, 

 so far as I could ascertain, depositing their eggs all over it. When they commenced 

 laying, the ground was wet, and they did not appear (as far as my observation extended) 

 to deposit as many eggs as heretofore in their cells — not over half of them having eggs 

 in, and even these being seldom more than half filled. I have heard of some of the 

 eggs hatching out late in the season, but saw nothing of the kind myself. I made 

 examinations some time in the latter part of October, and found what appeared to be 

 the common maggot in the cells, the eogs in the same having the appearance of being 

 spoiled, many being addled or entirely without substance in the shell. There is consider- 

 able anxiety among our farmers, as well as in the community generallj% as to what they 

 will do the coming season. Much could be done, in my opinion, by concerted action 

 in the early Spring montlis, in destroying the eggs and the "hoppers"' as soon as 

 hatched. If lialf the time given to grumbling and loafing, in this communitj% had 

 been spent in active efforts against the " hoppers," in past seasons, and had such 

 eftbrts been a^eneral througliout the grasshopper regions, an immense amount might 

 have been saved to the country. JOHN D. DOFF. 



RoCKPORT, Mo., Dec. 3, 1876. 



Bar-ry Co. — The grasshoppers" came into this county about the first of October, 



