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At SaTannah I talked Tvltli several farmers from the surrounding- 

 country and made a circuit of several miles to the west, nortli. and east 

 of the town to examine the iields. 



A farmer who had recently been in Holt county said there had been 

 some little damage a few weeks ago from grasshoppers working into 

 the edge of the winter wheat, sometimes a strip a rod wide being in- 

 jured : but the wheat had been retarded by dry weather more than by 

 grasshoppers. Xo grasshoppers were there now, and there had been. 

 he said, no young grasshoppers observed during the fall. Xone of the 

 parties talked with had known of any damage to amount to anything. 

 Some stated that grasshoppers were quite plenty in pastures and 

 meadows a few weeks before and, with dry weather, had shortened the 

 IDasturage. I found in the fields practically the same conditions as in 

 Buchanan county. Xearly all of the species noted there were observed. 

 In one field of winter wheat I could see along the edges that the tips 

 of the leaves had been eaten off some time before, probably when but 

 little above the ground, but the wheat had evidently fully recovered 

 from whatever check may have been caused by the clipping. 



I was told that some damage had been reported in Xodaway county, 

 and though it seemed probable that the conditions would prove the 

 same there I thought best to stop there long enough to make sure of 

 the situation. While en route for that county I talked with a man who 

 owned a farm at Cawood, in Andrews county, who informed me that 

 grasshoppers had been more than usually plentiful in his pastures some 

 weeks before, but no young ones were seen. At Guilford the same 

 story was repeated and hasty examination showed conditions to be the 

 same as at preceding places. The fields of winter wheat seen from the 

 cars in passing showed no damage, though some were quite uniformly 

 thin, or the growth short. 



At Conception I was told that grasshoppers had been very x)lentifLil 

 and had at one time done some injury to winter wheat adjoining grass- 

 lands, but they all disappeared some time ago. Only winged ones had 

 been seen and my informant identified them as femur-rul)rum^ some 

 S]Decimens of which I caught and showed him. M. differentiaUs, which 

 I also showed him, he said was not more common than usual, but he 

 thought the red-legged one much more abundant than usual. I found 

 both these sj)ecies and atlanis common and observed numbers of dead 

 ones in the grass along the roadside or in the grass and rubbish under 

 fences. Here I found a single specimen of a rather young larva appar- 

 ently femur-ruhrum or atlanis. but nothing further to indicate any fall 

 hatching of eggs. 



Larvae of Tragocephala here, as elsewhere, were rather common. 

 Dissosteira was also present. 



In addition to the territory visited I learned from a man in St. Joseph 

 who lives in Clay county that grasshoppers injured clover and grass 

 there, but no young ones were noticed, which evidentlv indicates the 



