116 REPORT UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



eas has just swept over us like the devouring locust of Palestine. The land ^viis as tho 

 garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. 



Decatur Comity. — " Grasshoppers destroyed the corn crop and drought the wheat, oats, 

 barley, and potatoes." 



Ellis County. — "Destroyed everything growing except the grasses." 



Ellsivorih County. — " Destroyed corn and everything green except sorghum and broom 

 corn." 



Edwards County. — " Crops entirely destroyed, not one bushel of vegetables or grain 

 being saved for man or beast." 



Harvey Comity. — "Nearly total destruction of corn and vegetables." 



Jefferson County. — " Destroyed all corn, fodder, and vegetables ; late corn entirely and 

 early corn to a considerable extent. Fruit trees stripped and fruit badly damaged." 



Jewell County. — " Destroyed all crops not mature, except sorghum." 



Lincoln County. — "Destroyed corn and vegetables." 



Lyon County. — "Destroyed all green crops and vegetation." 



Marion County. — "Destroyed nearly all the corn and vegetables." 



McPherson County. — "Nearly a total destruction of corn and vegetables." 



Mitchell County. — " Entire corn crop and vegetables destroyed." 



Morris County. — "Corn nearly ruined ; vegetables entirely so; fruit and shade trees 

 badly damaged." 



Norton County. — " Crops entirely destroyed." 



Oshorne County. — " Corn crop destroyed ; also vegetables, hedges, and young fruit 

 and forest trees." 



Ottawa County. — "Entirely destroying the corn crop, vegetables, and fruit." 



Pawnee County. — "Total destruction of crops." 



Beno County. — "General destruction of late crop.s" 



Eeimhlic County. — " Corn crop and vegetables totally destroyed, and fruit trees 

 seriously damaged." 



Eiley County. — " Destroyed nearly everything green." 



Russell County. — " Completely devastated the country." 



Bush County. — " We have nothing left but our teams, which we will have to sell or 

 starve unless we receive aid." 



Shawnee County. — " Destroyed nearly everything they were capable of destroying." 



Smith County. — " Entirely destroyed corn and nearly all kinds of vegetation." 



IVahaunsee County. — "All the corn destroyed except some of the earliest which had 

 ripened: vegetables, fruit trees, and this year's growth of trees were also destroyed." 



Washington Comity. — "Almost entire destruction of corn crop, vegetables, and fruits." 



We have no such complete returns from counties in the other Western 

 States and Territories as from Kansas, but in a large part of Nebraska, 

 Minnesota, Dakota, and the northwestern section of Iowa, the destruc- 

 tion of crops in 1874 was about the same as Kansas. 



Gov. C. K. Davis, of Minnesota, writing to the Secretary of War, says : 



"The locusts have devoured every kind of crop in the northwestern part of Minne- 

 sota. (Ttey did the same thing last year, in the same area.) Many thousands are now 

 suff-ring lor food, and I am using every public and private source to send immediate 

 supplies of food." 



The commissioner o€ statistics of the same State, in his report for 

 1874, says that the locusts destroyed more than 50 per cent, of the crops 

 in the following counties : Brown, Clay, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lac qui 

 Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Martin, Murray, Nobles, Redwood, Eenville, Eock, 

 Watonwan, and Yellow Medicine. 



The following quotations from the correspondence given in Professor 



