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season, but Lave done little damage. They have deposited few eggs compared with the 
preceding year.” — Ibid. 
“ Page Co., Iowa, about Nov. 1867.—We have been visited this autumn by the Grass¬ 
hoppers, which have devastated gardens to considerable extent, and even eaten the fruit 
from the trees. They were particularly fond of peaches, in many instances eatiug the 
fruit entire, leaving the pit [stone] on the tree. Nearly all the cabbage in the county 
has been devoured by them, and the autumn wheat entirely eaten up, my own being the 
only piece left in this section. The earth is filled with their eggs. ”— Ibid. 
“ DesMoines, Polk Co., Iowa, Jan. 8, 1868.— There come to us from every direction ex¬ 
pressions of great apprehension, about the devastations of the Grasshoppers the coming 
season.” — Iowa Homestead. 
When I was attending the Eair of our State Agricultural Society in October, 1867, I 
got into conversation at my Hotel with Mr. C. McKee, of Cass Co., Illinois, who, as he 
informed me, had just returned from a business tour through a great part of Iowa. 
From this gentleman I learned that the Grasshoppers first invaded Iowa about 
August 25th, and that they continued arriving till about the end of September. “ They 
came,” he told me, “ with a westerly wind, and were generally believed by the Iowa 
farmers to have originated in Dacotah.” He had met with them, or heard of them in 
the following counties of Iowa., and from the above Reports of the Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment we may add Adams and Page counties to the list; all of which, as will be seen by 
the geographical student, lie in the western half of the State, the most easterly point 
in the most easterly counties (Polk and Warren) being no less than 115 miles from the 
nearest point on the Mississippi River:—Cherokee (also reported by the Agricultural 
Department,) Woodbury, Ida, Sac, Calhoun, Greene, Dallas, Guthrie, Adair, Madison, 
Warren, Clarke, Ringgold, Carroll and Polk (Des Moines.) I may add that the Editor 
of the Iowa Homestead, to whom I had forwarded a list of the above 17 counties in Iowa, 
says in his issue of Jan. 15, 1868, that he “ thinks that the territory named covers the 
extent of the Grasshopper-raid into Iowa in the summer and fall of 1867.” 
Of course, throughout the districts in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa, which 
have thus been invaded by the Hateful Grasshopper in the autumn of 1867, the-eggs 
laid by the females, except the few that hatch out the same autumn, will mostly live 
through the winter and hatch out in the spring of 1868 ; when, in all human probability, 
the same partial destruction of the crops will take place, that was experienced in the 
spring and summer of 1867 throughout the districts invaded in the autumn of 1866. 
But there is not the least reason to anticipate, as the writers of many of the above 
extracts evidently do, that these Grasshoppers have become a permanent institution in 
that section of country. Likely enough, these districts may not be again invaded by 
their little foes from the Rockj Mountains for the next ten or twenty years. When in 
October, 1866, in the columns of the Practical Entomologist, I stated that it was not at 
all probable that the Grasshopper plague would be continued in Kansas and Nebraska 
beyond the summer of 1867, I did so with the distinct proviso, “unless fresh swarms 
should descend upon those countries from Colorado.” (Vol. II., p. 5.) Since, however, 
I am now writing more especially for the citizens of Illinois, it is not necessary to dwell 
further upon this subject. 
But Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa were not the only States on this side ot 
the Rocky Mountains, that were invaded by Grasshoppers in the autumn of 1867. 
Nearly a dozen counties in Texas have suffered in the same manner and at the same 
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