APPEIVDIX IV. 



MISSOURI DATA FOK 1877. 



Liberty, April 4. — The crop looks well at present, and I believe we will have over 

 an average of wheat. Spring is backward, and, of course, can tell nothing about oats 

 and corn. No grasshoppers here, and we do not expect them unless perhaps in flying 

 swarms after they get wings ; from these we do not fear any material damage this 

 year. 



Springfield. — The prospects for wheat in the vicinity of Springfield are very good. 

 No grasshoppers nearer than 20 miles ; the grasshoppers have ruined nearly all the 

 wheat in Dade County, coming wiihin 15 or 20 miles of Springfield. There never was 

 a greater preparation for a corn crop than is being made this spring. 



Kansas City, April 13. — We have no grasshoppers here nor any eggs, so don't 

 expect any unless they fly here when they hatch. Wheat is reported looking better 

 than for many years, and a good acreage sown. 



Saint J o^, April 13. — Crops look well in this vicinity: fair prospect for wheat; 

 no grasshoppers in the immediate vicinity ; they reached within 20 miles of here last 

 fall. In the west and north, fears are entertained that they will do considerable dam- 

 age where the eggs are deposited. 



Stewartsville, DeKalb County, April 13. — The prospect for crops is excellent in 

 this part of Missouri. We have no grasshoppers nor grasshopper eggs. 



Ejn^obnoster, Johnson County, 42^riZ 14.— Crop prospects are good. Wheat looks 

 splendid. Not a grasshopper in this part of the county. Farmers are putting forth 

 great efforts to make a large corn crop. 



Kidder, Caldwell County, Ap>ril 14. — The crop prospects in this place never 

 looked more promising. No grasshoppers, old or young, have been seen this spring. 



Warrensburg, Johnson County, Apjnl 14.—' The wheat prospect is A No. 1 ; no 

 grasshoppers in this section. — ISaint Louis Globe-Democrat. 



We have had no locusts this year, except a few stragglers last fall from a swarm 

 which passed down through Central Kansas and into Southwest Missouri. — [J. E.Glad- 

 ish, Aullville, Lafayette County, April 15, 1877. 



Continuous wet weather is retarding the hatching of the " hoppers " here. Snow 

 this morning ; thermometer thirty-five degrees above zero. — [John D. Dopf, Eockport, 

 Mo., April 27, 1877. 



Carthage, Jasper County, April 30.— There are plenty of grasshopper eggs here, 

 but none hatched out, and there is no fear that the damage will be serious when they 

 do hatch. — \_Saint Louis Glole-Bemocrat. 



There was but very little damage done last season in this immediate vicinity, and but 

 few eggs deposited. I understand, however, that in the southwest part of the county 

 quite a number have hatched out. It is thought that a large proportion of the eggs 

 was destroyed by the heavy cold rains. A year ago last summer they came from the 

 south in a clear warm day, with a gentle breeze from that direction, commenced 

 alighting between 10 and 11 o'clock a. m., and completely cleaned out the greater part 

 of my crops ; their departure was to the northwest. — [T. D. Wallace, Hopkins, Nodaway 

 County, May 21, 1877. 



Grasshoppers are now hatching out here. One gentleman says he counted eighteen 

 coming out of one hole. They are now eating what is called smartweed. The farm- 

 ers apprehend no danger from them.— [E. D. Barton, Sarcoxie, May 22, 1877. 



I am glad to say that the locusts have not made their appearance in our locality ; 

 and that crops are in a pretty good condition. — [H. Carr Pritchett, Morrisville, Polk 

 County, May 30, 1877. 



In a few localities in this county the 'hoppers have hatched out in considerable 

 numbers. They have eaten smartweed, but I think they have not yet damaged crops. 

 Thus far the complaints nearly all come from farms adjoining the timber. Eggs ap- 

 parently good are still in the ground unhatched. A stranger passing through the 

 county in a carriage would not be likely to notice any 'hoppers.— [William H. Avery, 

 Lamar, Barton Countv, June 7, 1877. 



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