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NEWSPAPER REFERENCES TO INJURIOUS OCCURRENCES IN 1901. 



Numerous clippings were received from newspapers relative to the 

 spread of this grain louse and destruction wrought by it to small grain 

 crops in Texas and adjoining territory during the spring of 1901. The 

 following are transcribed: 



[Galveston News, March 21. j 



Denton, Tex., March IS. — W. E. Smoot, of Argyle, was here to-day with a quantity 

 of tla- little green insects that are doing so much damage to the wheat. The insects 

 are present in myriads and the big wheat farmers are taking a very gloomy view of 

 the prospect, many of them believing that their crops are irreparably ruined. Many 

 of them, in fact, are making preparations to plant the injured wheat land in cotton 

 or corn. 



Farmers who were here ten years ago say that the present visitation is exactly like 

 that of 1891 and that the entire wheat crop of several comities was almost entirely 

 lost, some of the yield being as low as half a bushel to the acre and the highest not 

 more than 10 bushels. 



Gainesville, Tex., March J.'. — I>r. W. II. Freeman, who lives at Era, 15 miles west 

 of < Gainesville, in speaking of the growing wheat, said : "The wheat in my section is 

 literally ruined, and the farmers will have to plow it up and plant the ground in corn 

 and other products." 



Sherman, Tex., March 18. — The condition of the wheat crop from the inroads of the 

 Hessian fly or some similar pest is attracting much attention. En some localities it 

 is said that the wheat crop will be plowed up and cotton or some other late crop 

 planted instead. 



[Dallas (Tex. i Herald, March 21.] 



man, Tex., MarvhM. — Great alarm is felt here by the farmers at the ravages 

 of a small green bug that is infesting the wheat and oats. 



[Dallas (Tex.) Herald, March 22.] 



W. II. Marshall, a prominent farmer of Whitesboro, Grayson County, said: "The 

 reports about the damage being done to the wheat in our part of the State are not 

 exaggerated in the least. Hundreds of acres have been killed around Whitesboro 

 and in other parts of Grayson County. The flies have also gotten into Collin County 

 and are doing considerable damage there, and some damage has been done in Denton 

 County. Unless the ravages are checked soon we will have to buy our flour and 

 seed wheat." 



[St. Louis (Mo.) Republic, March 24.] 



Reports from Texas say that at least 25 per cent of the wheat crop in the northern 

 part of the State has been ruined by the hug, and the entire crop is threatened. 



The insects are seen in countless numbers in the growing wheat. Advices from all 

 parts of Texas say that the pest is spreading, but appears to he working only the 

 stubble-ground wheat. 



Owing to the mildness of the winter, instead of being killed it propagated rapidly, 

 and apprehensions are felt for the entire crop. So far wheat on the cotton ground 

 does not appear to he damaged. 



[Galveston (Tex.) News, March 26.] 



Waxahachie, Tex., March 26. — Mr. B. F. Cherry, of Midlothian, this county, re- 

 ported that a little green bug was doing a great deal of damage to wheat in that 



