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sented. They assured me thai not a single report bad been received by 
them which mentioned injury from grasshoppers, and they were positive 
that no damage was being done. 
At the newspaper offices I received similar replies, except that in the 
office of the Kansas Democrat I learned of a report that sonic damage 
had been done in Kearney County. As this report, however, was some- 
what indefinite, I hesitated to make it the basis of a special trip to the 
extreme southwest part of the State, and, Lawrence being so near at 
hand, I concluded to go there to see if Professor Snow had any recent 
information. 
Professor Snow was absent, but his assistant, Mr. V. L. Kellogg, 
kindly gave me all the information he could. He said that they had 
heard nothing from the region that had been examined by Professors 
Snow and Popenoe in Colorado, except that the winged insects were 
moving south, and he was sure that none of these had entered Kansas. 
He also informed me that they had received information of injuries 
at Garden City, and showed me specimens of Caloptenus different talis 
and bivittatus received from there. 
This information tending to substantiate the report of damage in 
Kearney County, I decided to visit Garden City and took the first train 
for that place. On the way I kept careful outlook for any signs of 
damage, and improved the opportunity of occasional stops to collect 
specimens and inquire of residents as to the prevalence of grasshoppers. 
All answers agreed in denial of any unusual numbers of grasshoppers 
or of injury from them, and it was not till I reached Garden City that 
I learned of any damage. Here I was told that the alfalfa fields were 
being ruined, and it was only a short time after my arrival that I was 
in a field a mile from town where the conditions showed at once the 
state of affairs to be serious. 
The alfalfa was badly stripped, the blossoms and seed entirely eaten 
up, and in many x)atches the stems were stripped bare of leaves, look- 
ing brown and dead. 
The grasshoppers, mostly differ entialis, with a considerable number 
of bivittatus, when rising in front of me as I walked through the field, 
formed a cloud 8 or 10 feet high and so dense as to hide objects beyond 
them. Here I noticed a number of grasshoppers dead from the attacks 
of parasitic Tachinids. 
From this field I went to another, owned by the same man, which was 
also well filled with grasshoppers, but the injury here was Less, espe- 
cially around the buildings, where a large number of turkeys were doing 
excellent service in killing the hoppers and at the same time adding 
rapidly to their own weight. 
In a field of sorghum directly adjoining there was also considerable 
injury, but differentia I is seemed scarce, while a bright green species. 
Acridium frontalis Thos., was abundant and apparently the principal 
agent of destruction. This species was also noticed here and in other 
