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Irish potatoes, and vines. 26. No damage yet. 27. Hogs, squirrels, prairie, gray, and 

 striped cbickeus, birds. 28. Fall plowing. 29. 98 to 100. 30. Grown ones lly up to 

 roost; yoniig crawl up on stubble, weeds, &c. — [Babbitt. 



Steele City, Jefferson Coiuity.—2Q. They have never injured the native grasses. 27. 

 Wolves and skunks eat many 'hoppers. 28. Dragging and plowing. 29. The only tim- 

 ber is along the streams. 30. They rest during the night on bushes, corn-stalks, &c. 

 31. According to the velocity of the wind, V- or 20 miles per hour. — [Gantt. 



FaUs Citij, Rieliardson County. — 23. Do not hatch in the fall. 25. Green pease, sorghum, 

 corn. 26. Clover is killed almost the first thing. Timothy stands a poor chauce. 28. 

 Deep plowing and harrowing. 29. Ne:.rly one-fourth is timber. — [Hutchiugs. 



Arof/o, Richardson County. — 23. Never hatched in the Fall here. 24. Cabbage, to- 

 bacco, turuix)s. 'i5. Sugar-cane, sorghum. 26. The grass has not been injure<l. 27. 

 Hogs and domestic fowls. 28. Plowing. 29. Ninety per cent. 30. They craw^l up to 

 the top offences, bushes, weeds, and grain. 31. Five or six miles. — [Gerdes. 



Grand Island, Hall County. — 25. Apple trees, crab-apple trees, pease, cherry, plum, 

 peach, were all more or less damaged ; plum and crab-apple least. The coffee-bean 

 tree, ash-leaf maple or box-elder, soft maple, honey-locust, elm, black willow. Rocky 

 Mountain evergreens, red and white cedars, were injured but little. The black locust, 

 white or grey willow, black and white w^alnut, European larch, American larch, Scotch 

 pine, white pine, Norway spruce, were injured a great deal more. The grape-vines, 

 wild and cultivated, were let alone until the apple trees were all stripped. 26. Native 

 grasses injured very little. 27. Wild and tame pigeons, on eggs and young; domestic 

 chickens, turk' ys, praiiic chickens, grouse, and quails in any stage of their develop- 

 ment. Blackbirds feed on the young. 28. Deep plowing satisfactory. 30. Toward, 

 evening the young 'hoppers climb bushes, poles, sticks, small trees; atd on wet and 

 cold d..ys they seek shelter under anything that will shield them. — [Stolley. 



Genoa, Platte County. — 25. Sorghum arid broom-corn. 29. Timber 1 per cent. — 

 [Tiuniau. 



Siol)rara, Knox Cownty. — 25. Pease, tomatoes, beans. 26. No injury to grass, but they 

 are to young trees. 29. One-fifteenth timber. 24. By the young, tender blades of 

 wheat. By the old corn, and ripe kernels of oats. — [Hulleban. 



Hooper, Dodge County. — 25. Broom-corn, sugar-cane. 26. Never injure them worth, 

 mentioning. :^8. Scarcely any. 29. From 5 to 10 per cent. 30. Never move at night 

 unless disturbed. 31. From 5 to 20 miles per hour. — [Eisley. 



Pleasant Hill, Saline County. — 23. No evidence of Fall hatching. 24. Everything but 

 sorghum and pumpkin vines. They have a particular regard for tobacco and onions. 

 26. Have never injured the native grasses. 27. Snakes. 29. Probably not one-fiftieth 

 timber. 30. Young insects quiet at night. The old ones collect on trees and shrubs,, 

 sometimes in sufficient numbers to bend the trees. 31. Owing to force of wind, 4 to 

 30 miles per hour. — [Abbott. 



Chapman, Merrick County. — 23. Know of no eggs hatching in the Fall. 24. Onions, 

 cabbage, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, grains in the order mentioned. 25. Sorghum, 

 broom-corn, peach trees, box-elder. 27. Prairie chicken, plover, blackbird, lark. 26. 

 They do not injure native grasses. 29. But little or no timber. 30. They feed mostly 

 on cloudy days, in the evenings, and warm nights. They crawl up on all kinds of vege- 

 tation of an evening, and stay until the hot sun of the next day ; then they seek the 

 shade. 21. Always travel with the wind.— [Cox. 



Purr Oak, Otoe County.— 29. One acre of timber to one hundred of prairie.— Davidson. 



Fremont, Bodge County. — "^3. Eggs have not hatched here in fall. 26. Never have 

 known them to eat native grass except when hatched on it, and when they could get 

 nothing else. Will eat anything rather than " pass in their checks." 28. Deep plowing 

 successful. 29. Pioportion of timber very small. 30. Do not fly, but sometimes eat 

 at night. If flying, they will light before sunset. 31. They move with the wind, so 

 their flight depends on that. — [Blanchard. 



Ponca, Dixmi County. — 24. Onions, cabbage, tobacco. 25. Tomatoes, beets, pease. 2.6. 

 Never knew native grass to be injured by old or young ones. 29. Prairie 2.0 to 1 of 

 timber. 30. The young do not eat at night, but crouch down under some grass or 

 bush or around a lump of dirt. The old ones eat all night as well as all day, to my 

 certain knowledge.— [James Rockwill. 



Friend, Saline County. — 23. No eggs are known to have hatched in the fall except 

 by artificial means. 24. Young prefer otions, strawberries, wheat, oats, and barley. 

 Old onions. 25. Pease and sweet potatoes by both. 26. Native grasses have not been 

 injured visibly. 29. Prairie to timber, ninety -nine-hundredths prairie. 30. The 

 young and growing remain under straw, earth, hay, &c, 31. From 4 to 6 miles per 

 hour, according to force of wind.— [Whitcombe. 



IOWA. 



Alta, Buena Vista County. — 23. A very few, which were deposited early in the season 

 by straggling 'hoppers from swarms in a warmer climate, hatched out in the Fall ; 

 those deposited by invading swarms did not until spring. 24. Tobacco, corn, onions, 



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