122 REPORT UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



will afford some assistance iu making up a general estimate of the 

 amount sustained duiing the years 1874-1877: 



Staiistics of losses in Minnesota occasioned hii locusts in the years 1875 and 1876, an shown 

 hy the report of the commissioner <f statistics of that State. 





1875. 



1876. 



Wheat 



Bushels. 



2, 024, 972 



1, 127, 7?0 



790, 981 



41, 059 



1, 131 



16, 450 



130, 8-6 



7,971 



Bushels. 

 3, 315, 240 

 2 251 374 



Oats 



Corn 



1, 305, 169 

 159, 3G8 





Eye v^::"y.v.""."".vv"v/:. ; ; 



Buckwheat 





Potatoes 





Beans 









Total 



4, 141, 230 



7, 031, 151 





Mr. Eiley, in his eighth annual report as State entomologist of Mis- 

 souri, from the data he was able to collect, estimates the loss occasioned 

 by tbe locusts in the counties of Western Missouri, in 1875, on grains 

 alone, as follows : 



Atchison, $700,000; Andrew, $500,000; Bates, $200,000; Barton, 

 $5,000; Benton, $5,000; Buchanan, $2,000,000; Caldwell, $10,000; Cass, 

 $2,000,000 ; Clay, $800,000 ; Clinton, $600,000 ; DeKalb, $200,000 ; 

 Gentry, $400,000 ; Harrison, $10,000; Henry, $800,000 ; Holt, $300,000; 

 Jackson, $2,500,000; Jasper, $5,000; Johnson, $1,000,000; Lafayette, 

 $2,000,000; Newton, $5,000; Pettis, $50,000; Platte, $iOO,000; Ray, 

 $75,000; Saint Clair, $250,000 ; Vernon, $75,000; Worth, $10,000. 

 Amounting in the aggregate to something over $15,000,000. 



We have no sa tisfactory statements of losses in any of the other States 

 X)T Territories, for this or either of the subsequent years, nor have we 

 any data by which to estimate the aggregate losses for either of the years 

 1874j 1875, 1876, or 1877, in Colorado, Montana, Dakota, or Utah. But 

 it is fair to presume that in the entire locust-visited area, during these 

 years, the total loss would fall but little, if any, short of $200,000,000. 

 If this had been distributed over a number of the thickly-settled States, 

 its effect upon the industries of these States would have been but slightly 

 felt ; but when we remember that it was borne almost entirely by Min- 

 nesota, the western half of Iowa, the western section of Missouri, l^e- 

 braska, Kansas, the western part of Texas, and some of the sparsely-set- 

 tled Territories, containing a pioneer population, generally of small 

 means, we can better appreciate the immense suffering it must have 

 entailed and the severe shock given thereby to the agriculture of the 

 West. 



