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20th, but are now (at the end of the month) gradually decreasing. They have laid their 
eggs by millions.” — Ibid. p. 352. 
“ Holton, Kansas, Sept. 30, 1867.— Grasshoppers eating some early-sown wheat. They 
can be seen by millions passing to the south-west. They have done but little injury 
here thus far.” — Ibid. p. 352. 
“ Greenwood, Iowa, Oct. 6,1867.— Grasshoppers pretty thick, but came too late in the 
season to injure anything except autumn-grain, of which there is very little.” — “ Jus¬ 
tice ,” in Prairie Farmer , Oct. 12, 1867. 
“ ottoe Co., Nebraska, Oct., 1867. — Of late, the Grasshoppers have again visited our sec¬ 
tion, and are depositing their eggs in vast numbers. We begin to fear that they may 
prove to be an annual pest to our River towns, and in fact to the entire Missouri val¬ 
ley.”— Monthly Rep. Agr. Pep., 1867, p. 327. 
“ Osceola, Clarke Co., Iowa, Oct. 20,1867. — The KansasGrasshoppers, which for six weeks 
past have gradually made their way eastward, appeared here in comparatively small 
numbers about two w'eeks since. They are rather small brown insects, with red legs 
and white wings, to the general observer differing from the ordinary grasshopper in 
nothing except their power of continued flight. A gentleman from the upper part of 
this county reports that, on a road running through his place, the Grasshoppers would 
be found, morning and evening, six inches deep, [in the ground? — B. D. W?] He stated 
that their eggs were hatched after an incubation of several days, and that a few days’ 
growth gave distinct form to the young. The female may be seen in large numbers on 
our roadsides in the act of * setting.’ The tail of the insect, projecting downward and 
backward, is found to enter a tubule in the sod, about % of an inch in depth and 3-10ths 
in diameter. Into this nest is deposited an egg-sack of mucus, containing in uniform 
order 16 minute eggs of the shape of an elongated bean. I send a pair of insects and 
several nests of eggs.” — Corresp. of Keokuk {Iowa) Constitution. 
“ PesMoines , Polk Co., Iowa, Oct. 30,1867. — Myriads of young Grasshoppers have been 
observed in the fields about here of late, which of course must be the progeny of the 
flood of insects, which first made their appearance here the latter part of September.”— 
Iowa Homestead. 
“ Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, Pec. 6,1867. —Corn is about all in crib and not very good. 
The Grasshoppers took the leaves about 3 or 4 weeks too early, which affected it about 
the same as an early frost does.” — U C. R .,” in Prairie Farmer, Pec. 21, 1867. 
“ Nodoway Co., N. W. Missouri, about Nov. 1867. — The Grasshoppers made a raid upon 
us this autumn, but too late to do much injury. We look for their appearance in the 
spring, when the eggs deposited will hatch.” — Monthly Rep. Agr. Pep., 1867, p. 365. 
“ Woodson Co., Kansas, about Nov. 1867. — The ‘Mormon locusts’ [Hateful Grasshop¬ 
pers] made their appearance in this county on the 25th of September, and there was not 
sufficient cold weather to stop their ravages upon the crops until the 29th of October, 
when the thermometer fell to 24° above zero. The consequence is that they have 
destroyed all the wheat sown prior to their arrival.” —Ibid. 
“ Pakota Co., Nebraska, about Nov. 1867. —The Grasshoppers have left us, but their eggs 
have been deposited to be hatched out in the spring.” — Ibid. 
“ Hall Co., Nebraska, about Nov., 1867. — Grasshoppers have been very thick again this 
