﻿70 NINTH ANNUAL REPORT 



There have been no locusts in this county the present j'ear, for which all good 

 citizens are truly grateful. ' WM. A. SMITH. 



East Lynne, Mo , Dec. 3, 1876. 



There were a few scattered grasshoppers in this county durino: the Fall, but I am 

 not sure they were of the Rocky Mountain species. They did no damage and laid no 

 eggs. In fact, depredating insects were remarkably scarce this Fall, except the Flat- 

 headed Apple-tree Borer, which was more numerous than usual. 



Eaymore, Mo , Dec. 4, 1876. \V. H. BAERON. 



A few Rocky Mountain Locusts alighted in the southern border of Cass county, 

 and also in our neighborhood, near Harrisonville ; but very few. This was about the 

 end of October and beginning of November. I don't think they laid any eggs in this 

 county ; I have seen no sign? of them. On the 5th, 6th and 7ch of November, I was 

 in the southwestern part of Bates county, and there I saw more of them. I saw that 

 the young wheat was eaten off", and, after hunting a little, I found them huddled in 

 under the blades of the wheat. 



Their general course of flying was southeast, and I think it was too late in the 

 season for them to deposit any eggs. DAVID DEFAKAUGH. 



Eaymore, Mo.. Dec. IS, iS76. 



Cedar Co. — The grasshoppers came to this county in October, and remained until 

 the snow came and destroyed them. They laid eggs all the time they were here, and 

 ate all the wheat in the county. G. W. MONTGOMEEY. 



Stockton, Mo., Dec. 2, 1876. 



The locusts arrived here about the 16th of October, and began at once to bore into 

 the ground and deposit their eggs. Thej- chose the hardest ground they could find, 

 seeming to prefer that- which was sandj'^ or gravelly. They continued coming for two 

 weeks, and would average one to every square foot of the whole ground. They 

 devoured about nine-tenths of the wheat in tliis, the south part of the county. They 

 came from the southwest. W. SMILEY. 



Stockton, Mo., Dec. 2, 1876. 



Locusts were here in vast numbers, laying eggs and destroving nearly all the 

 wheat. C.'W. JOEDAN. 



Whitehare, Mo., Dec. 9, 1876. 



Caldwell Co. — No injury from locusts in this county, and no eggs laid. 

 Gould Farm, Mo., Dec. 23, 1876. C. L. GOULD. 



Clay Co. — No part of our county was visited by locusts the past season. 

 Harlem, Mo., Nov. 30, 1876. J. C. EVANS. 



The Eocky Mountain Locusts did not make their appearance in this vicinity at any 

 time during the year 1876. An occasional straggler could be seen during September and 

 October. None but close observers noticed them. DAN, CAllPENTEE. 



Barry, Mo., Nov. 30, 1876. 



Dade Co.— The locusts came the first week in October in sufilcieut force to destroy 

 about all of our Fall wheat. They laid oggs., which, in dry spots, hatched out, and the 

 young hoppers have been killed by the frost. R. A. WORKMAN . 



Greenfield, Mo., Dec. 11. 1876. 



DeKalb Co.— DeKalb county has not been visited by the Rocky Mountain Locust 

 thisvear. G. E.SHU LZ. 



Havana, Mo., Dec. 2, 1876. 



Gentry Co. — A few scattered grasshoppers were seen passing over the county this 

 Fall, but none stayed. They were flying very high in air, and to the southwest. 

 Mt. Pleasant, Mo., Dec. 3, 1876. CHaRLES S. WHITESCAEVER. 



One flight of locusts passed over this county. Wind from the N. W. A few 

 stayed here. No deposit of vitu?. 



Gentryville, Mo., Dec. 16, 1876. HUGH STEVENSON. 



