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lie not more than l-20th of the crop. They are now flying, and ten days will relieve us 
ol them in a great measure ; and the injury by them has not been l-100th part of what 
was anticipated three months ago.” [Then, sir, your folks must have expected to lose 
1-^Oth of their wheat and rye multiplied by 100, or 500 per cent, of the entire crop ! ! ! 
B. D. W.] — AT. Y. Sem. Trib. July 16, 1867. 
“ Oregon, Missouri , July 1, 1867. — Farm and garden produce much injured by grass¬ 
hoppers.” — Monthly Hep. Agr. Pep., 1867, p. 305. 
Omaha, Nebraska, about July 3, 1867. — Grasshoppers are said to be very destructive 
to wheat and cereals south of the Platte River as far as St. Joseph, Missouri.” — Chicago 
Tribune July 6, 1867. 
Leavenworth, Kansas, about July 4,1867. — In many parts of this State no Grasshoppers 
are leported, and the general testimony is that the crops never were better. They are 
having a high old time with Grasshoppers in Atchison Co., and fears for the onion 
ci op aie entertained. The Press says that a full-grown Grasshopper was lately seen 
marching off with a good-sized onion under each wing, another lying across his horns, 
and vith the tears streaming down his face, either because he was not strong enough to 
carry more, or because the onions he did carry were too strong for him.”_ N. Y. Sem. 
Tribune, July 9, 1867. 
“ Jackson Co., Kansas, July 8, 1867. — Such crops as have escaped the ravages of the 
Grasshoppers look well. The Grasshopper panic seems at an end. The most of them 
ha\e taken flight to the north or north-west.” — “ Pani ” in Prairie Farmer July 30 
1867. ’ 
“ Padonia, Kansas, July 8,1867. — The prospects for crops here in north Kansas are very 
good now, notwithstanding the armies of Grasshoppers that were hatched here. 
AV intgr wheat that was not eaten up last fall is ready to cut. Spring wheat looks well; 
the Grasshoppers have injured it but little here. Corn also looks well, and, if the 
‘ varmints ’ will only leave soon, will come out all right. Some think |the Grasshoppers 
are leaving the country; there are not nearly as many now, as were hatched out last 
spring.” — “ Young Farmer' 1 ' 1 in Prairie Farmed', July 20, 1867. 
11 Missouri, about July 14,1867. — Near St. Joseph the Grasshoppers have done some 
damage to the wheat, still the breadth sown was large and there will be an average 
crop. In the Phille Purchase, on the Western Border, the Grasshoppers have done 
great damage to everything but hemp.” — N. Y. Sem. Tribune, July 19, 1867. 
“Nebraska City, Nebraska, about July 14, 1867.* — In some localities the Grasshoppers 
have destroyed wheat, corn and garden vegetables clean. They have now finally left 
the State ; gardens have been replanted and are doing well. Only the sandy portions 
of Kansas have been visited by this insect. In Otoe Co., Nebraska, the Grasshoppers 
have commenced their ravages on wheat, and it is suffering. Many fields will not be 
worth cutting, while corn is badly thinned. In some places potatoes are completely 
stripped. Sorghum has suffered much. Our gardens are eaten through and through. 
South of us we hear much complaint, while a few miles west there is little damage 
* In the original this item is not locally dated, further than as being intelligence from Kansas and 
Nebraska; but as it manifestly proceeds from the same pen as the third item which follows it here, I 
have given it the same local date. Without that local date, it is measurably unintelligible. 
