﻿74 NINTH ANNUAL REPORT 



eating up thousands of acres of wheat. Some farmers have resown, but many have 

 not. They deposited their e^gs by the acre, choosing, strange to say, the hardest and 

 most gravelly places to lay them in. I found, on examination, just at the setting in of 

 "Winter, that very many of the eggs had so far advanced as to lesemble small white 

 maggots. The hoppers have penetrated considerably farther East this year in this 

 county than they have ever done before. \V. S. GOODMAN. 



Mt. Vernon, Mo., December 12, 1876. 



McDonald Co. — The Rocky Mountain locust visited all parts of McDonald county, 

 and deposited their eggs very liberally, some of which hatched out before the cold 

 set in. W. D. POLSON. 



Neioto7i Co. — First saw the grasshopper here on September 29. On Snnday the sky 

 was full of them, going East. From here to Joplin they are everywhere : to-day the 

 ground is covered, and the air filled with them. They are at Granby. Farmers are 

 afraid to sow wheat. G. C. BEOADHEAD. 



Nkosho, Mo., October 7, 1876. 



Grasshoppers came into the west part of this county in large numbers on the 23d 

 of September, and soon extended all over it. They came from Northwest at first, but 

 soon they came from all parts, as the wind blew. They would rise and fly off in the 

 fore part of the day, and a new lot would come in at night. They continued very 

 numerous till the sleet storm in November, which killed them ; and they filled the 

 ground with eggs ; some of which hatched out, and some were destroved, but plenty 

 yet remain. JOHN THRASHER. 



Neosho, Mo , December 7, 1876. 



The locusts came into all parts of this county in vast swarms, and laid large quan- 

 tities of eggs; every batch of land that was bare, and not too hard, is filled with them, 

 and some tew have hatched out this Fall. W. H. WETHERELL. 



Seneca, Mo., December 6, 1876. 



Nodaivay Co. — The Grasshoppers came into this county from the Northwest on 

 11th of September, and lefc, going southwest, on the 26th of October. They spread 

 over about tAvo-thirds of the county, but the northeast they did not reach, and that 

 part I'emained uninjured. They deposited eggs, but not so many as was expected from 

 their numbers. Many fields of wheat in the western part of the county were entirely 

 destroyed. The p-reatest damage was done to fall grain and meadows. 



Pickering, Mo. M. B. W. HARMAN. 



The locust came into the west or northwest portion of our county late in the Fall. 

 In the extreme West they laid eggs, and devoured the Fall wheat. 



LuTESTON, Mo., December 14, 1876. VVM. H. CLARK. 



The grasshoppers were in the northern and western portions of this county 

 last Fall, but did little damage. They laid eggs, but opinions differ as to the probability 

 of their hatching out next Spring. Many contend that some kind of insect has de- 

 stroyed them, as, repeatedly, when the holes in which they were deposited were dug 

 into, no eggs were found. T. D. WALLACE. 



Hopkins, Mo., December 3, 1876. 



Pettis Co. — A few grasshoppers came into this county last Fall, but I do not think 

 they laid any eggs. They did no damage. J. K. P. IDOL, M. D. 



HousTONiA, Mo , November 30, 1876. 



The Rocky Mountain Locust did not visit any part of Pettis county during the 

 year 1876. O. A. CRANDALL. 



Skdalia, Mo., December 11, 1876. 



Platte Co. — No locusts here this year. Sixty miles north and west is as near as they 

 •came to us. JAMES ADKINS. 



Platte Citv, Mo., Dec. 1, 1876. 



