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few hatcbing in June, and even up to this date. 5. Some in Marcb, but mostly in 

 April, 1876. (5. Not one-tentb were batched ; ground wet. 7. Deposited in all kinds 

 of ground from black clay to solid gravel. 8. On gravelly side-bills and upland 

 prairie. 9. About June 10. 10. Commenced migrate about July 5. 11. Injury, at 

 lowest estemate, in Taos County, $500,000, and probably three times as much in the 

 Territory. 12. Wheat, but destroyed everything, only very little corn and a few pease 

 left in the whole county. 13. None. 14. Pease. 15. In all directions, where anything 

 could be found to eat. 16. Catching on large sheets with a hole in center, to which a 

 cotton sack is sewed. Thousands and thousands of pounds were caught this way, but 

 very unsatisfactory, as expenses are nearly as much as crops will come to. 17. Nothing, 

 as there are no crops to protect. 18. None. 19. Yes. 20. Gave before. 21. Not at 

 all, as locusts were so plenty that chickens and turkeys would not eat them. 



The grasshoppers are dying very fast, by the millions ; a small gray fly is killing 

 them. They have all a small white grab inside after death. I send you by to-day's 

 mail a small box wirh grasshop]3ers, also one of the gray flies. The grasshoppers are 

 all sizes. — [Alexander Gusdorf. 





