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Have taken potatoes, buckwheat, and beans clean ; have injured corn 

 about 15 per cent, and are still at work on it. Have deposited eggs in 

 great quantities. They incline to travel southeast, but the wind is 

 against them. Cuming: Came from Dakota August 4, staid about ten 

 days, injured late corn and potatoes, beans, gardens, &c.; deposited many 

 eggs, and have nearly all gone southward. Insects will destroy their 

 eggs, and birds, quails, and prairie-chickens will eat their young when 

 quite small in untold millions. In their matured state nothing can 

 successfully cope with them save quails, prairie-chickens, and other 

 insectivorous birds. Bodge: Swept down upon us from the great north- 

 west August 10, bringing terror to the hearts of our people. They re- 

 mained about two weeks and deposited eggs in immense numbers. 

 Hops were entirely destroyed ; fruit-trees are stripjjed of their leaves, 

 and in some sections of the new growth of bark. But half the corn is 

 left. Webster: Injured corn slightly. Franklin: Damaged corn 50 per 

 cent. Have now all gone sovithwest. Adams : Have taken about half 

 the corn and injured young trees 50 per cent. Saunders : have re-ap- 

 peared since the last report. Corn, potatoes, and sorghum have been 

 largely damaged ; tobacco, buckwheat, and beans have been wholly and 

 gardens mainly destroyed, and the earth is filled with eggs. Seward : 

 Came from the north in immense quantities. They fed upon the corn 

 and cultivated grapes, and destroyed 80 per cent, of the buckwheat. A 

 few linger still in the south part of the county, traveling southwest. 

 Thayer: Alighted about a week ago. Have injured corn very badly, 

 and taken all the garden products. Boone: Came in large numbers 

 August 3. Have destroyed all buckwheat, beans, and late corn ; stripped 

 the foliage from all young trees, and killed young fruit-trees. They 

 staid about three weeks ; have all gone south. Lancaster: Are eating 

 everything. Platte : In their flight south visited our county on the 10th 

 of August, and in consequence of adverse winds remained two weeks. 

 They entirely ruined late corn, made general havoc of vegetables, and 

 filled our land with eggs. Wayne: Aliglited and commenced work 

 August 6 and 10. Injured late corn 25 per cent., potatoes slightly; 

 •deposited their eggs, and left August 13. Antelope : Came from the 

 north, August 5, in countless numbers, and swept late corn, buck- 

 wheat, potatoes and beans clean. Eichardson : First appeared yesterday, 

 August 30, in small numbers from the northwest. Merrick: Crops 

 promising up to 10th of August, when the grasshoppers came with the 

 wind from the north. The next day the wind changed, and continued 

 rather strong from the south for a week. The hoppers had to stay on 

 the ground and could not do much damage. On the 18th, the wind 

 being from the northeast, they left, but toward evening a lot more came. 

 On the 21th, ^11 left for the south. Buckwheat, late beans, garden- vege- 

 tables, late potatoes, «S:c., are all a total loss. On the 17th some deposited 

 eggs where the ground was bare. Hall: Large swarms appeared from 

 the northwest August 10 at noon. Commenced depositing eggs on the 

 13th and 14th ; on the 14th some left ; still larger masses came in their 

 stead, mostly from the northeast. Farmers generally tried to smoke 

 them out, but most abandoned the effort after the third day. I protected 

 my garden for ten days, but from the 11th to the 13th they piled in on 

 me so fearfully that I could not keep them from stripping nearly every 

 tree of its foliage. They have eaten about one-third of the apples and 

 half the early with all the late corn. On the 23d and 24th they left in 

 a southern direction, the wind being from the northwest. — (Monthly 

 Agricultural Report, August and September, 1876.) 

 I have also the following notes on its appearance in Nebraska from 



