[84] repoe't united states entomological commission. 



Carthage, June 19. — The grasshoppers have appeared very thick in this (Jasper) 

 county during the last few days, and are doing considerable damage. They are eating 

 Tip the heads of wheat in a number of fields in the southern part of this county. The 

 farmers in this county are very much alarmed, and say if they remain they will de- 

 stroy their crops. The opinion here is that, as they are beginning to get wings and 

 fly, they will leave here. Large numbers are flying north, and people may look for 

 them north and east of here before \oTig.-r-\_Samt Louis Globe-Democrat. 



We were not troubled with locusts during the past season in any part of our coun- 

 ty, that I know of. — [T. W. Simpson, Payne's Prairie, Polk County, November 26, 1877. 



I have the pleasure to state to you that the locusts in this county (Hickory) were 

 not as plenty as the year previous. Only a ^ew came into the southwest corner of the 

 county ; came from the southwest early in September ; remained up to cool weather.' 

 I did not notice any of them lay eggs here ; did not notice any young ones hatched 

 "here last spring. I live on a prairie farm near the southwest corner of the county. 

 Heard of no complaint as to the locusts in any other part of the county. — [ W. L. Snidow, 

 Elkton, January 4, 1878. 



