4.270* 
Kearney, Franklin, and '.Tebster -Counties, June 14 to 18. 
The infestation 1 was in the wheat , oats, and com. Corn- 
f : elds were "badly infested where corn wa3 next to infested 
vheat or oats or where it had been planted on wheat ground 
and there was volunteer wheat in the field. The wheat and 
oats were quite seriously injured, and in numerous instances 
the corn near wheat fields was entirely destroyed. By June 
21, a week after the first reports of injury had been re- 
ceived (from Kearney County), the pest had spread west to Dundy 
and Lincoln Counties. Injury in Dundy and Lincoln Counties 
continued to bs reported until July 1. In these more western 
counties injury to wheat and oats was very marked, and fields 
were reported as being destroyed. During the same period 
serious injury was found to have extended into Nuckolls 
County, and the pest was found as far east as Lancaster 
County, though in the latter county the infestation was 
relatively light in most of the fields, and, with a few 
exceptions, no commercial damage was done. 
During the following week, June 22 to 28, the spread 
of injury continued westward and r. irthwaid. The center of 
injury northward was in Pierce, ^adison, Antelope, Holt, TTheeler 
and Greeley Counties. In this district it was the oats 
the*: suffered the most. The insects were p^sent in many 
fields in tremendous abundance, and the farmers reported 
the f ? elds destroyed in a large number of cases, between 
June 22 and July 1. The damage in Holt County was worst 
in the vicinity of Atkinoon ; C'Neill, and Chambers, chiefly 
in oats but some in barley, and reports indicated the 
killing out of a number of fields. In southern TTheeler 
County, areund Ericson. the oat fields were, in general, 
badly infested and during the last few days in June the 
killed areas were reported as having spread greatly. In 
Greeley County the oat fields around Spalding and Greeley 
were reported as being very heavily infested June 27 to July 1, 
and undoubtedly hundreds of acres in this vicinity were 
badly injured or destroyed. 
During the same week, June 22 to 28, the area of injury 
extended westward also. In Dundy County the damage, which was 
first reported on June 21, had extended by June 26, and 
fields of wheat, spelt, and corn were reported to be badly 
damaged cr destroyed. June 26 and 27 oats, spelt, and corn 
vrere reported being destroyed around Imperial, Chase County. 
The bugs were reported as "very thick in the air" and "coming 
in clouds," and destroying fields within a few days. By 
June 28 oats and barley in Keith County, around Ogallala, 
was being badly injured, and on the same date oats in V.orrill 
County, around Bridgeport, were found badly damaged. The 
coming of hotter and drier weather toward the end of June 
checked the spread and injury during the closing few days 
of the montsh, and the outbreak was on the w^ ne over most 
of the infested areas by July 1. 
