[80] REPORT UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



Mlis County, Palmer, April 26. — Grasshoppers are passing northward slowly. 



Washington County, Brenham, Ajiril 26. — Grasshoppers are moving northward, causing 

 rejoicing among farmers. 



Colorado County, April 28. — Grasshoppers rapidly disappeared last week, and there 

 are now few localities in our county infested with them. Their ravages have perhaps 

 been less than 3 per cent, in this section. 



Fayette County, April 28. — The first grasshoppers seen going north passed over on 

 Sunday, the 15th of April. During the first part of the week they seemed to be hold- 

 ing mass-meetings here and there, the weather being a little cool ; but on Friday they 

 went off by myriads. 



Live Oalc County, April 28. — Grasshoppers plentiful at Lagarta. 



McLennan County, April 28. — Grasshoppers are damaging the young cotton on Mr. 

 Will Kingsbury's farm, near this city. 



Johnson County, May 1. — Grasshoppers are going ofif. 



De Witt County, May 1. — The grasshoppers have at last taken wings, and are leaving 

 for other parts as fast as they can go. The air for several days has been pretty thick 

 with them. 



Navarro County, May 1. — Grasshoppers are playing havoc with gardens on the out- 

 skirts of the city, but we are glad to learn that they are dying by thousanda. 



Eohertson County, May 1. — The grasshoppers have disappeared from the neighbor- 

 hood of Calvert. 



Wood County, May 1. — There are no grasshoppers in Wood County. 



Waller County, Hempstead, April 30. — Grasshoppers are disappearing. 



Bastrop County, May 2. — The grasshoppers are reported to be rapidly disappearing. 



Fort Bend County, May 2. — Grasshoppers here. 



Hays County, May 2 — Grasshoppers are coming and going. They go north as soon 

 as they are able to fly. Their ravages so far have been quite exceptional. 



Caldwell County, May 3. — Grasshoppers have done little or no damage in the black 

 lands. 



Dallas County, May 3. — In some portions of Dallas County, the grasshoppers have 

 entirely ruined the wheat. 



Freestone County, May 3. — Grasshoppers have destroyed a great deal of young corn 

 and cotton in the western and southern portion of this county, and many farmers have 

 been forced to replant. 



Hamilton County, May 3. — In some localities, the grasshoppers are creating some 

 uneasiness, but they are confined to a comparatively small area. 



San iSaha County, May 3. — The grasshoppers have taken all the wheat on Cherokee 

 Creek except W. J. Key Kendall's, R. T. Barbe's, and D. S. Hanna's, leaving only 

 about fifty acres that will make anything. 



Fannin County, Bonham, May 2. — No grasshoppers here. 



McLennan County, Waco, May 2. — The grasshoppers are flying high, going north. 



McLennan County, May 4. — Mr. Sears, residing on the Bosque, poisoned myriads of 

 grasshoppers with corn-meal and strychnine. 



Travis County, May 2, — The heavens are clouded with, grasshoppers going north ; wind 

 south. 



Austin County, May A. — The "Statesman "says the heavens were shrouded throughout 

 the day by clouds of grasshoppers borne by southern winds toward the north. The 

 width and depth of the vast volume of insect life was measureless. 



Washington County, May 4. — The air has been full of grasshoppers going north. 



Bastrop County, May 5. — No material damage done by grasshoppers except to garJens. 

 They are moving northward. 



Bell County, May 5.— Grasshoppers nearly gone. 



Fayette County, May 5.— As soon as the recent norther stopped blowing, which was 

 on the 1st of May, at the rising of the sun, there was a rising of grasshoppers also, 

 and by one or two o'clock the whole heavens, as far as the eye could penetrate, was 

 literally alive with them going north. Their depredations have been in spots, some 

 sections being almost exempt. 



Kerr County, May 5.— Grasshoppers are making nuisances of themselves about in 

 spots, but no general damage is feared. 



Lee County, Giddings, May 5. — Grasshoppers, having inflicted but small damage, aie 

 now rapidly emigrating. 



Denton County, May «. — The grasshoppers are fading away rapidly, after having done 

 considerable damage to gardens and fields ; but this damage has not been general. 



Fayette County, May 8.— During the week, the air was filled with grasshoppers, gently 

 wafted northward by the Gulf breezes. 



Gillespie County, May 8.— On some farms about Fredericksburg the grasshoppers 

 have destroyed the wheat, and cotton has been planted in its stead. 



Johnso7i County, May 8. — The " Chronicle " learns that much of the wheat and oats 

 in the vicinity of Grand View has been entirely destroyed by the grasshoppers. They 

 are leaving, and corn and cotton will escape their ravages. 



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