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Syracuse and Tribune, and occurred at Horace only in small numbers, 
too few to cause any apprehension for the immediate future al Least. 
Taking- the Missouri Pacific, I passed through to Kansas City without 
finding any evidence of damage from grasshoppers, and as I could [earn 
of no other localities in the State tlian in the three counties examined 
where such damage was reported, I returned to Ames, and will now pro- 
ceed to a detailed account of the territory examined, the species ob- 
served, and the special measures needed to meet the outbreak in this 
section. 
THE TERRITORY AFFECTED. 
The damaged territory is quite easily defined and might very prop- 
erly be said to coincide with the irrigated portion of the Arkansas 
Valley lying in Finney, Kearney, and Hamilton counties in southwest 
Kansas. The entire irrigated district, however, is not equally injured 
and there are some fields much less damaged than others. The whole 
area covered extends with occasional breaks a distance of about 50 
miles along the river and forms a strip from 1 to 5 miles wide but 
limited entirely to areas where irrigation has been practiced, and within 
this limit is dependent upon the kind of crops raised. 
The greater damage was observed at Garden City, though nearly as 
bad was seen at Lakin, and but little was found at Syracuse, corre- 
sponding as near as I could learn pretty closely with the length of 
time since alfalfa has been made a principal crop on the irrigated 
lands. 
THE CROPS AFFECTED. 
Alfalfa is the crop in which there is the most loss, but orchards are 
suffering badly, and were they extensive throughout the district would 
very probably present the heavier loss. 
The alfalfa crop is a very profitable one and easily grown with irriga- 
tion, and has been very extensively planted, the fields devoted to it 
covering many thousands of acres. 
The injury to this crop is of such a nature that I believe practical 
remedies may be adopted, and, as will be stated later, active measures 
should be adopted this fall and next spring. 
THE AMOUNT OF INJURY. 
The great loss this year has resulted from the destruction of the seed 
crop. In many fields this has been a total failure, and the loss may be 
considered as covering thousands of acres and involving many thou- 
sands of dollars. One man who had something over 1(H) acres in alfalfa 
considered that his loss amounted to about .£2,000. While lie expected 
to cut and use the crop lor hay, the damage had been such that the hay 
would be little better than after the seed crop had been secured, and 
he reckoned the lull loss of the seed CTOp tor the season. In SOmecaseS, 
