﻿OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 75 



No locusts in our county this Fall ; a few are reported to have fallen from a great 

 height, carried out of their course by adverse winds. < E.. P. C. WILSON. 



Platte City, Mo , December 1, 187G. 



Polk Co. — The locusts came into our county last Fall at a late date. They did not 

 get so far East as this in large quantities ; but at the western border of the county they 

 Avere numerous, though i have been unable to ascertain whether or not they deposited 

 any eggs; but they came so late that I hardly think they did. T. W. WILSON. 



Payne's Prairie, Mo., December 18, 187G. 



In the three western townships of this county the hoppers have damaged the wheat 

 badly, and have deposited large numbers of eggs, They have been very destructive in 

 the eastern part of Dade and Cedar county. J. CARSON. 



Bolivar, Mo , December 15, 1876. 



No wheat was eaten off in this immediate vicinity. I do not think any attempt was 

 made to resow ; the damage was done too late. I hear of no measures being taken to 

 protect wheat or other grain from the threatened ravages. T. VV. SIMPSON. 



Payxe'i^ Prairie, 5Io., December 30, 1876. 



The locusts visited the western portion of this county some time last Fall, in Octo- 

 ber or November, I believe, and did considerable damage to a few fields of young 

 ■wheat ; though I think they were found only in a few isolated spots. Don't know 

 whether they laid eggs or not. H. CARR PRITCHETT. 



MoRRisviLLE, Mo., January 6, 1877. 



The locusts visited the western townships of our county, Jackson, Madison, and 

 Johnson. They made their appearance between the 1st and 10th of October, and came 

 from the West. They lilled the ground with eggs. Where most numerous they entirely 

 destroyed the growing wheat. J. M. LOAFMAN, M. D. 



MoRRisviLLK, Mo., December 27, 1876. 



i?a?y Co. — No part of our county was visited by the Rocky Mountain locusts during 

 the vear. W. R. MEADOR. 



Harpix, Mo., December 29, 1876. 



St. Clair Co. — The locusts dropped in here in very small numbers late in October. 

 The wind was from the north as tbey were coming in, and carried the greater part to 

 Texas ; only those that had tired out staying with us. They laid efcg?, and injured the 

 wheat somewhat I hear that they have eatrn all the wheat from Sac River south to 

 Arkansas. It is verv cold just now, and no hoppers visible. 



Collins, Mo., Dec. 2, 1876. Wm. H. FILLERY. 



But very few Rocky Mountain Locusts came into the county this year. None to 

 do any damage to crops. South of us, in Barton, part of Cedar and Polk counties, 

 they are reported to have destroved the wheat crops in places. JOHN HILL. 



Taborville, Mo., Dec. 6, 1876. 



Vernon Co. — The locusts visited the southwestern portion of our county this Fall, 

 doing much damage to wheat. They deposited a vast number of eggs, yet th3 depos- 

 its were not so numerous in proportion to the number of insects as in former years — 

 -say fifty per cent. M. L. MODREL. 



Little Osage, Mo., Dec. 9, 1S76. 



They came into the south and west half of Vernon in great numbers, and, it is 

 said, deposited egor^ as usual. Very few appeared in the northeast part, and no eggs 

 deposited there. J. A. PURtNTON. 



ScHELL City, Mo., Dec. 2, 1876. 



No damage sustained in northeast part of this county. But few made their ap- 

 pearance. In the Spring of 1875, the young appeared in immense numbers, but unac- 

 •countably disappeared from this locality before half grown, and did no damage. 



ScHELL City, Mo., Dec. 23, 1876, J. A. PURINTON. 



