[76] REPORT UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



Grimes County, March 18. — Occasionally we hear of the appearance about town of 

 young grasshoppers, but they are few. 



Lee Couniij, March 18.— The grasshoppers are still here. 



Washhifjion County, Brenham, March 19. — Grasshoppers are destroying gardens as fast 

 as they advance. 



Travis County, Elgin, March 19. — Grasshoppers are consuming com, wheat, and oats, 

 and are making great havoc in gardens. Farmers are looking somewhat despondent. 



BeU County, March '20. — We learn that the grasshoppers are less numerous than they 

 were a week or ten days ago, and it is now believed they will do but little damage. 



DeTViit County, March 20.— We learn from Mr. J. R. Hamilton, planter on Deer Creek, 

 that the grasshoppers are disappearing from his neighborhood. 



Falls County, March 20. — Little grasshoppers are increasing by countless millions. 



Limestone County, March 20. — Myriads of little grasshoppers are to be seen on our 

 prairies and in our fields. 



Milam County, March 20. — The woods are fairly alive with young grasshoppers. They 

 are not all hatclied out yet, and none are able to fly. Gardens are past saving and 

 wheat is gone wherever they touch it. One encouraging feature is that as soon as 

 they hatch out they commence jumping northward. This seems to indicate that they 

 will leave as soon as their wings put out, as they did in 1868. 



Victoria County, March 20. — The grasshoppers are said to be leaving as soon as hatched. 



Grrayson County, Denison, March 20. — Grasshoppers are numerous, but not alarmingly 

 so. 



Bastrop County, March 21. — Grassboppers are out in swarms, but no particular dam- 

 age is reported as yet. 



Grayson County, March 21. — Young grasshoppers are now quite numerous. 



Guadalupe County, March 21. — The young grasshoppers have already devoured sev- 

 eral small fields of wheat and oats. It is feared they will greatly damage these crops, 

 which are large in this county. 



Gonzales County, March 21. — Mr. L. B. Green, residing on the river, reports the prai- 

 ries and valleys literally covered with grasshoppers, and that they appear to be drift- 

 ing in waves, and at night take to the broom-weed, and feast upon the dead wood of 

 the same. The largest are about one-third grown, and range from that down to the 

 size of a flea. On the opposite side of the river, at John Steen's, there are none. 



Washingion County, March 21. — Some complaints are made of the ravages of grass- 

 hoppers, which are not serious as yet. 



Washington County, Brenham, March 21. — Old farmers are confident that the com 

 eaten otf by the grasshoppers will come out all right yet, as the roots are healthy. 



Washington County, Chapel Mill, March 24. — No appearance of damage from grass- 

 hoppers. 



he Witt County, March 27. — Grasshoppers are doing immense damage in the neigh-: 

 borhood of Cuero. They appear to be hopping northward, not yet having wings. 



Guadalupe County March 27. — In some places the grasshoppers have attacked j oung 

 peaches, and have nearly destroyed some crops of oats and wheat.^ As they grow 

 their ravages increase. 



Lampasas County, March 27. — In many places the grasshoppers are doing but little 

 damage and the people are going on with their work without fear of injury, while 

 in other localities tender vegetation is being trimmed olf even with the ground. 



Live Oak County, March 27.— Grass in this section is starting up finely and considera- 

 ble farming is being done, although grasshopper depredations are much feared. 



McLennan Comity, March 27. — The grasshoppers existing here in myriads are destroy- 

 ing gardens and doing considerable damage to fruit-trees. They have not da,maged 

 the grain-fields as yet, and as they are growing rapidly and moving northward it is 

 ho])ed the grain will escape. 



Milam County, March 27. — It is said that the grasshoppers have seriously injured the 

 wheat in Milam County. In some places they have completely stripped the ground 

 of vegetation and are now leaving the county, going north. 



Navarro County, March 27.— The grasshoppers are going for the wheat. 



Waller County, JLTayc/t 27.— Grasshoppers about the size of house-flies have made their 

 appearance by millions, and grave apprehensions are entertained that they will eat up 

 the growing crop. 



Washington County, March 27.— Judge Bowers reports that in the neighborhood of 

 Burton the grasshoppers have eaten the corn oft' even with the roots. 



De Witt County, March 28. — Grasshoppers have taken possession of the country in 

 this vicinity. Gardens, fields, the forests, and prairies are covered with them. 



Leon County, March 28. — The grasshoppers in this county are eating down the young 

 corn and are doing great damage to the gardens and everything green. 



Lavaca County, March 28. — Grasshoppers are taking possession of gardens, and farmers 

 are delaying planting. 



Mason Counly, March 28, — In spite of the grasshoppers, some of the farmers have 

 planted at least a portion of their crops. 



