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Just what this loss will amount to it would be difficult to ascertain. It 
has been variously estimated at from one-third to one-half the value 
of the corn crop for fodder, and doubtless the first figure represents 
approximately the loss. In addition to this there will be a greater or 
less shrinking of the corn in the ear from the loss, or partial loss, of 
its leaves, but in most cases this will be slight, since, as stated above, 
the corn was far advanced before the leaves had been injured to any 
great extent. 
Outside of the locality above mentioned these insects also occurred 
in destructive numbers, but in much more restricted areas, and the 
injury occasioned by them was principally confined to the outer rows 
of corn in fields adjoining clover or grain fields after these had been cut. 
Later in the season, as soon as the grasshoppers had acquired wings, 
they dispersed over the cornfields, and the injury occasioned by them was 
therefore not so noticeable as at an earlier period, when they fed from 
day to day in nearly the same spot. This area in which they occurred 
in more or less restricted localities is comprised in a stretch of country 
about ten miles east and west by twelve miles north and south. 
As stated above, this entire territory was not overrun, but within it 
they occurred in destructive numbers in several more or less restricted 
localities. It could not be learned that they occurred in such numbers 
at any point outside of this territory. 
Breeding grounds. — All indications point to the fact that these grass- 
hoppers issued from eggs deposited the present season in grain and 
clover fields within the infested districts. It was the universal testi- 
mony of the farmers in the infested localities that at the time of cutting 
their wheat, about the middle of June, the young insects were present 
in the wheat fields in large numbers, and even as late as the last week 
in August the young, recently-hatched individuals were still to be found 
even in the more central portions of these fields. On the other hand, 
none of them could be found in the central portions of the larger corn- 
fields. When occurring at all in such fields they were always most 
abundant along the outer edges, indicating that they had originated in 
an adjoining field. It was also the testimony of the farmers that they 
had not observed any of the wingless ones in the more central portions 
of their cornfields. 
In the clover fields the conditions were the same as in the wheat 
fields, the recently-hatched specimens being present even in the central 
portions of the largest fields, some of which were twenty-five acres in 
extent. 
In the woodlands no recently-hatched larva? were observed, except 
along the outer edges adjoining grain and clover fields. Even the 
winged individuals did not penetrate far into the woods, but contented 
themselves with u roosting " in the trees along the outer edges at night, 
where they would be within easy reach of the cultivated fields upon 
which to depredate the following day. 
