[78] REPORT UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



Mason County, April 11. — Grasshoppers are still numerous, and are at work on corn 

 and pea dies. 



Wilson County, April 11. — Grassbopi^ers thus far have done no damage. 



Austin County, April 12. — Grasshoppers have not interfered with the crops. 



Hamilton County, April 12. — In some locations grasshoppers have destroyed gardens, 

 but altogether crop prospects are encouraging. 



Limestone County, April 12. — The "Record" says grasshoppers have done hutlittle dam- 

 age. 



Denton County, April 15.-— Wheat-fields almost clear of grasshoppers. They are leav- 

 ing the fields and taking to the woods. 



Be Witt County, April 15. — Grasshoppers not so numerous and getting wings. Still 

 at work on young corn and what is left of gardens. Fruit-trees thus far not injured. 



McLennan and Bosque Counties, April 15. — Grasshoppers numerous near the line sep- 

 arating the counties, but have done little or no damage. 



Washington County, April 15.— TMyriads of grasshoppers hopping about, but do not 

 seem to be going in any particular direction. In some fields they have eaten the young 

 crops entirely up, while others they have not touched. 



Atascosa County, April 17. — Grasshoppers are in the county. 



Brazos County, April 17. — Grasshoppers are not generally diffused over the county, 

 but move in large families. In many places they have destroyed everything, while 

 many have escaped untouched. Many of our citizens have saved their growing peaches 

 by applying tar to the bodies of the trees, which prevents the 'hoppers ascending. Mr. 

 James P. Wilson and family have waged relentless war against them, and have thus 

 far prevented them from destroy ing.any thing. Liberal use was made of fire, boards, 

 carbolic soap, tar, kerosene, and turpentine. 



Colorado County, April 17. — Grasshojjper depredations continue in places. The 'hop- 

 pers are growing fast, and it is thought will soon take wings. Some reports say they 

 are already flying. As yet damage to crops is limited. 



Comanche County, April 17. — The " Chief " announces that grasshoppers are disappear- 

 ing in Comanche County. 



Freestone County, April 17. — Grasshoppers still here. In some localities they have 

 done considerable damage to small grains, fruits, and corn. 



Fayette County, April 17. — Grasshoppers doing some damage, but not serious. They 

 seem to be in spots. 



Grayson County^ April 17. — The pests are now attacking the blossoms on the fruit- 

 trees, with a fair prospect of destroying the crop. 



Kerr County, April 17. — Grasshoppers have done no material damage. 



Navarro County, April 17. — Wheat has been damaged in a few places by the grass- 

 hoppers. 



Eohertson Comity, April 17. — The grasshoppers are going north as rapidly as their legs 

 will carry them. They have no wings as yet. 



Bexar County, San Antonio. April 16. — Grasshoppers are abundant. 



Fannin County. — A few grasshoppers were visible up to April 19 and 20, but no dam- 

 age. 



Grayson County. — Grasshoppers numerous about March 20 and 24, and had destroyed 

 several small fields. 



Dallas County, April 7. — Grasshoppers are reported about March 20 as having injured 

 fall -wheat and oats. They appear in small collections. Having generally selected 

 hill-tops to deposit their eggs, have hatched out and remained there. 



Llill County, April 13. — Corn in some neighborhoods has been swept clean by the 

 grasshoppers. 



McLennan County, April 13.— Grasshoppers numerous, but not doing much damage. 

 The face of each individual 'hopper is turned northward. 



lAmestone County, April 13. — Grasshoppers are causing some delay in planting cotton. 



Washington County, Chapel Hill, April 13. — Grasshoppers are doing but little damage 

 except to gardens, which they have almost devastated. They are leaving the uplands 

 and going to the bottoms. 



Collin County. — Damage from grasshoppers not great, and will not materially affect 

 crops. 



Comanche County, April 18.— No grasshoppers to hurt much. 



Guadalupe County, April 18. — A few isolated farms injured by grasshoppers. 



G^ra^so/? CoiM<^?/,Jj>nZ 18.— Grasshoppers doing but little daniage to wheat. They 

 confine their operations principally to oats. 



Goliad County, April 18. — ^Grasshoppers doing but little damage to gardens or crops. 



Hays County, April 18. — Grasshoppers still doing harm, but their number is believed 

 to be decreasing. 



Johnson County, April 18. — Grasshoppers still on hand. In some instances they have 

 totally destroyed fields of wheat and oats, and the land had to be re-broke and planted 

 in something else. Farmers are sowing millet in place of the oats eaten up. 



