APPENDIX XX. — ESTIMATES OF INJURY. [223] 



IOWA. 



Dakota City, Humholdt County.— 12. Oats. 13. Oats, wheat, barley, &c. 14. Wheat. — 

 [Al. Adams. 



Hazard, Cherokee County. — 12. Wheat. 14. Barley. — [Merrit D. Pierce. 



Fort Dodge, Webster Count]/. — 11. May 21, 1877. Little damage yet. 12. Small grains 

 and garden vegetables with juicy leafage. They do not attack young corn if they can 

 get anything else. Prefer young tame grass to any other food. — [Mrs. J. Swain. 



Alta, Buena Vista County. — 11. Buena Vista County very little damaged. 12. Garden 

 stuffs, excepting pease. 13. Pease and potatoes have not suffered. — [Charles Thomp- 

 son. 



Lake City, Calhoun County. — 11 . In 1876, about 10 percent, of the corn crop. In 1874, 

 about 50 per cent, of all crops. In 1868, almost total destruction. 12. Barley, wheat, 

 oats, potatoes, corn, in the order mentioned. 13. Small grains and gardens. 14. Sugar- 

 cane and corn, pease, and potatoes. — [A. N. Jack. 



Mount Hope, Sac County. — 11. In Eureka Township, Sac County, damage to crops 3 

 per cent. August 20, 1877. 12. Barley and wheat. 13. All small grain. 14. Oats and 

 corn.— [A. B. Holms. 



Esiherville, Emmet County. — 12. Wheat and oats from invaders. Wheat from those 

 we raise. 13. None. No more than from a hail-storm. 14. Oats, pease, corn, when 

 young. Nothing but what they will eat when hungry. — [C. W. Jarvis. 



MINXESOTA. 



Dewald, Notles County. — 11. Loss about one-third. 12. Oats, flax, corn, wheat, and 

 potatoes (in the order given ) suffered most. 14. Pease, horse-radish, cockle-burr purs- 

 lane, and helianthus. — [David Bates. 



Worthington, Nobles County. — 11. Estimates the loss for the county at one-tenth for 

 1876. 12. Wheat, oats, flax, and corn. 13. Wheat, oats, barley, and flax. 14. Broom- 

 corn, sorghum, pease, and barley. — [Dr. B. D. Churchill. 



Excelsior, Hennepin County. — 11. No answer. 12. Wheat and oats. 13. Pease and 

 corn. — [George M. Powers. 



Lake Park, Becker County. — 11. No estimate given. 12. Barley, wheat, and oats, in 

 order given, 1876. 13. Potatoes, corn. 14. Pease and potatoes. — [Theodore Walton. 



Albert Lea, Freeborn County. — Loss trifling, June 16, lti77. 13. Not damaged enough 

 in this region to determine. — [D. G. Parker. 



Watab, Benton County. — 11. No estimate given. 12. All suffered alike. 13. No an- 

 swer. 14. Barley. — [David Oilman. 



Excelsior, Hennepin County. — 11. No estimate given. 12. Timothy, barn-grass, clover, 

 weeds (wild;, buckwheat, radishes, and lettuce. — [T. Bost. 



Tenhassen, Martin County. — 11. Crops all destroyed. 12. All crops. 13. No protec- 

 tion. 14. Pease. — [William Merry. 



Windom, Cottonwood County. — 11. Very little damage in 1877 ; previous years nearly 

 total destruction. 12. Wheat and oats. 13. None more than others. 14. No general 

 answer can be given. — [C. C. Huntington. 



Lake Eunice, Becker County. — 11. One- half crops destroyed in the county. 12. Wheat 

 up to July 8, 1877. 13. Wheat most easily protected. 14. Corn, pease, and potatoes. — 

 [John McLelland. 



Morristoivn, Bice County. — 11. No estimate given. 12. Onions, corn, beans. 14. Pease, 

 sngar-coru. — [Seth H. Kenney. 



Cosmos, Meeker County. — 11. No estimate. 12. Wheat and oats. 14. Corn. — [J. N. 

 McDonald. 



Alexandria, Douglas County. — 11. No estimate. 12. Barley in the ear. 14. Oats in 

 1877 ; Field-pease, squash and pumpkin vines, and tomatoes. — [John Abercrombie. 



Glenwood, Pope County. — 11. Damage estimated at one-half in county. 12. Wheat, 

 corn, potatoes, garden vegetables. 13. Grain more easily than root-crops. 14. Pease 

 and oats, from the young. — [David Campbell. 



Detroit, Becker County. — 11. But little injury done up to date. May 25, 1877. 12. 

 Grain crops are suffering most, particularly wheat. 13. One as easily as another. — 

 [C.K.Day. 



Saint Peter, Nicollet County. — 11. No estimate given. 12. Wheat is preferred to oats 

 and corn. 14. Oats, corn, and x)otatoes. — [J. T. Arnold. 



Janesville. Waseca County. — 11. Comparatively trifling. — [J. J. Headly. 



Nobles, Bigtlow County. — 12. Cabbage, lettuce, onions, radishes, turnips, beets, toma- 

 toes.— [N. V. McDowell. 



Detroit, Becker County. — 12. Wheat, oats, and onions. 13. Millet, India buckwheat, 

 pease, and potatoes. 14. Potatoes and India buckwheat. — [F. E. Wood. 



Holmes City, Douglas County. — 11. Seventy-five, per cent. 12. Wheat. 14. Corn and 

 potatoes. — [Henry Blackwell. 



Clear Lake, Sherburne County. — 11. Very little damage as yet. 12. Beans, wheat, 

 garden vegetables. 13. Corn, rye, pease, sorghum. 14. Rye. — [Daniel Fry. 



Seward, Nobles County. — 11. No estimates yet. 12. Beans, turnips, cabbage, oats, bar- 



