APPEJ^DIX XX. 



ESTIMATES OF INJURY ; MANNER IN WHICH DIFFERENT 

 CROPS WERE AFFECTED. 



[Answers to the following questions in circular No. 1 : 11. Estimate the injury done in 

 your county and State. 12. Crops which suffered most. 13. Crops most easily pro- 

 tected. 14. Crops which suffered least.] 



NEBRASKA. 



Niolrara, Knox County. — 12. Corn. 13. Eye, wheat, barley, oats, or any other 

 bearded grain. 14. The above.— [T. G. Hulliban. 



Ponca, Dixon County. — 12. 1874, corn, potatoes, cabbage, all gardens without excep- 

 tion ; leaves of soft maple and cottonwood, also by gnawing the bark off of soft maple ; 

 1876, August 6th, corn partially, gardens wholly. Gardens three-fourths destroyed ; 

 from eight to ten thousand dollars' worth destroyed. 13. Strawberry- vines and pease. 

 14. Strawberry, pumpkin, tomato, squash vines. — [J. Rockwill. 



Hebron, Thayer County. —12. Corn and garden vegetables. 13. Potatoes. 14. Sugar- 

 cane, broom-corn, prairie-grass. 



Farmers Valley, Thayer County.— 12. Small grains on breakings this year. 13. None 

 special. 14. Crops not on breaking. — [J. Vosburgh. 



Glencoe, Dodge County. — 12. 1873, everything , total failure of corn and oats. 1876, 

 destroyed everything. — [G. M. Dodge. 



Salem, Eichardson County.— 12, 1% 14. In 1875 no particular crop escaped ; all de- 

 stroyed in the following ratio: Clover, timothy, barley, wheat, oats, and corn. — [J. 

 C. Lincoln. 



Friend, Saline County. — 11 and 12. This county 20 per cent, corn ; this State 50 per 

 cent. corn. 13. Small grain crop ; 14. Oats, barley, and wheat, or those which mature 

 earliest. — [E. Whitcomb. 



Chapman, Merrick County. — 12 (May 18, 1877). Little damage done yet; probably 1 

 per cent. (1 acre in 100). 12. Wheat, rye, barley, oats, and corn. 14. Sorghum, broom- 

 corn.— [H. M. Cox. 



Pleasant Home, PolTc County. -^11. Wheat will average 15 bushels to the acre; rye, 20 

 bushels per acre.— [W. W. Elliott. 



Platismouth, Cass County.— 12. Corn (1876).— [D. H. Wheeler. 



Fremont, Dodge County. — 11. Comparatively little damage done yet CMay 11, 1877). 

 12. Wheat, oats, and tame grass ; 14. Winter rye and pease.— [G. F. Blanchard. 



Genoa, Platte County. — 11. About 15 per cent. 12. Wheat on new breaking ; 14, 

 rye. — [Geo. S. Truman. 



Platismouth, Cass County. — 12. Wheat, oats, corn, barley, and garden vegetables. 13. 

 I know of no effectual protection. 14. Potatoes, pease, and sorghum. — [A. L. Child, 

 M. D. 



Sunlight, Cass County. — 11. (In county) 1874, 25 per cent. ; 1875, 50 per cent. ; 1876, 

 10 per ceut. 12. 1874, corn and vegetables; 1875, wheat, barley, and vegetables; 



1876, corn and vegetables. 13. Corn.— [T. N. Babbitt. 



Tecumseh, Johnson County. — 11. Not to exceed one-half of 1 per cent., and I think 

 that liberal. 12. Spring wheat and barley. 13. Small grain. 14. Corn.— [C. A. 

 Holmes. 



Burr OaTc, Otoe County. — 11. Amount of injury done in this township up to May 28 



1877, is 20 per cent. 12. Barley and wheat. 13. Corn. — [J. H. Davidson. 



Grand Island, Hall County. — 12. Wheat, barley, rye, oats, by the youug. Some damage 

 done early to shrubbery in orchards. — [Wm. StoUey. 



Hooper, Dodge County. — 11. To May 13, about one-sixth wheat and one-third gar- 

 dens. 12. Wheat and gardens. 13. All small grain. 14. 1876, corn, flax, potatoes, 

 and late gardens. 1875, corn ; most came in August. — [C. F. Eiseley. 



Arago, Richardson County, — 11. 30 per cent, in the eastern part of the county. 12. 

 Barley, wheat, and oats. 13. All crops were subjected to their ravages, and all crops 

 alike protected. Corn (maize). — [Wm. Gerdes. 



Albion, Boone County. — 12. Corn crop entirely destroyed in 1874 and in 1876. — [Loran 

 Clark. 



Amazon, Franldin County. — 11. Not to exceed 1 per cent, of the small grain. 12. 

 Wheat, oats, and barley. 14. Corn, rye, flax, «&c. — [H. O. Hendrick. 

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