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on Sunday and Monday, the 8th and 9th. A glance upward towards the sun revealed 

 them filling the air as far as vision could extend, as thick as snowflakes in a storm, and 

 they drifted alonsc with the breeze, and fluttered down at your feet occasionally, or lit 

 on your nose, with as much unconcern as if they had been a part of the elements. 

 The bushes and sides of the road were speedily thick with them. — St. Louis Republican, 

 Oct. 1, 1876. 



The locusts were all over the county in great numbers. They laid a great many 

 esgs, but as most of them hatched out this Fall, 1 apprehend no trouble next Spring. 

 They came in September, and stayed until killed by frost. No wheat recovered, as far 

 as I know. Farmers generally resowed, but the wheat has not come up. 



Saiithfield, Mo , Dec. 2G, 1S7G. WM. G. L. CRIAG. 



The wheat that was eaten off did not recover. Very few farmers have resown. 

 There will be no wheat crop in this and adjoining counties this year. Next Fall there 

 will not be much sown on account of scarcity of seed, and dread of the hopper. Some 

 farmers are contemplating a crop of oats on their wheat ground ; others, flax and 

 barley. J. M. PETERSON. 



January 2, 1877. 



Jackson Co. — There were no Rocky Mountain locusts in this county the past Fall, 

 and, per consequence, no eggs deposited. Chinch bugs were seen in the early Fall. 

 Hickman Mills, Mo., Dec. 4, 1876. W. S. FARRLSH. 



The grasshoppers did not deposit any eggs here; only a few stragsflinsr ones, and 

 they perhaps of native species made their appearance. JACOB GREGG. 



Stony Point, Mo., Dec. 10, 1876. 



Johnson Co. — The Rocky Mountain locust failed to visit us the prist season. A few 

 were noticed very high in the air, passing over with the wind, but none alighted. We 

 have no chinch bugs at all this season, owing, perhaps, to the fact that the small grain 

 was totally destroyed by the hoppers in 1875. But such other pests as usually trouble 

 us were yery numerous and destructive. D. B. REAVIS. 



KiNGSViLLE, Mo., Dec. 4, 1876. 



No grasshoppers came here this season. They appeared in Barton county in Oc 

 tober, though not in great numbers, and west of that county, in Kansas, for a hun- 

 dred miles, they were very numerous, and depositing their eggs, at the end of Sep- 

 tember. W. A. CAMPBELL. 



HoLDEN, Mo , Nov. 27, 1876. 



There were no grasshoppers in our county this Fall. There may have been some 

 at the southwest corner of the county, but I do not think so. 



Warrensburg, Mo., Dec. 8, 1876. J. L. CLELAND. 



Fayetteville— None. J. L. MOTSINGER. 



Lafayette Co —Lafayette cotmty has not been visited this year bv the Rocky 

 Mountain locust. J- BELT. 



Lexington, Mo. 



No locusts came into this county the past season, or into Jackson countv either. 

 Sni-a-bar, Mo., 1876. J. T. FERGUSON. 



Lafayette Co. — There were a few of the genuine Rocky Mountain locusts with us 

 during the latter part of September, and beginning of October ; but they were so few 

 in number as to pass almost unnoticed, and were supposed to be stragglers, from a 

 flight that passed down through Kansas, depositing a vast number of eggs as far South 

 as Montgomery county, in that State. If those that were in this county laid any eggs, 

 they were so few as not to be observed, and it is my opinion that none were deposited. 

 As to what part of the county was invaded, it would be hard to tell, as they were so 

 few in number; and the fact that they mix up with the natives, adds to the difliculty. 



Aullsville, Mo., December 10, l"876. JAS. E. GLADISH. 



Lawrence Co.— The locusts came into this county about the 5th of October. Their 

 course was North. A small portion of the southeast part of the county was not visited 

 by them, and there the wheat crops are not hurt ; but they spread over all other parts. 



