CSREiL a. N D 
IT 
C tt A 
CROP I I! S 
&ent.aL fesdftis 
Oklahoma 
Texas 
Mexico 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acridiidae) 
J, S. Finckncy (April 17): The grasshopper situation appears 
to bo serious in the northwestern part of Jefferson and the 
southeastern part of Cotton Counties. Upon a rather intensive 
examination at the above mentioned places many eggs in hatch- 
able condition "ere found. The majority of the eggs ^ere 
ready to hatch and some masses were found that had already 
botched, 
J, R. Horton Capril 13): Last year's grasshopper depred-.tion 
in Comanche County, rind in the vicinity of Hastings in Jefferson 
and Cotton Counties, Oklahoma, has thoroughly aroused the 
peonle to expect and prepare for on outbreak this year. The 
writer found good prospects for sporadic outbreaks in 
Comanche County in a fen places where eggs were found at the 
maximum rate of 9 healthy pods per square foot. Mostly, 
however, healthy pods numbered 1 or 2 per square feot. rive 
species, or ■possibly genera, were recognizable in tne different 
types of e~ ;s and egg pods. Diseased and partly destroyed 
pods ''ere fairly abundant in proportion on M rch 28 . 
F r L. Thomas (April lU): Damage to cotton seems to be earlier 
and apparently "orse than last year, in. SO acres of yotmg fcbtton 
(Brayos Co.). Millions eating cotton as fast as it comes up 
(Polk Co.). Reported from Milam, Freestone, Walles, Ft, Bend, 
and Grimes Counties, 
Chafles II,. Gable (april 21): '..'. a. Baker reports grasshoppers, 
M elanomlus differential is Thos. , and M. pcnd^r_osns Scud. , 
hatching in tremendous numbers in northern portion of the 
St~te ■-'here there havebeen rains. They hove not yet beaun 
to hatch in o large area of centr-1 Texas "here they were 
abundant last year. The drought is so severe that the entire 
section is as bro'ma and bare as in December except for trees 
and brush. On ^pril 11 only a small percentage of cmes appeared 
injured by the drought, 
A. L« Herrera (April 7 1925) : Clipping from the daily paper 
"Bl Universal" referring to the enoraous damage which the 
grasshoppers have caused in the States of Chiapas and Vera 
Cruz, also advising that the rrasshommers have already 
reached Tancanhuitz, San Luis Potosi, and that there is great 
danger of their invading the United states. 
El Universal (^pril 1925); "The terrible grasshopper plague 
has eaten up everything even the roofs of the huts. Rencrts 
received yesterday ^ith regard to grasshoppers indicate that 
the plague requires a far more extensive campaign than was 
-50- 
