Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1867-03-21
GRASSRaPPERS.


Mr.. VIM. J. AllsB Of kansas City, ia
a letter to the .AdUsr!issr, gives the fol-
loving as his experience IN reference to
Tie perpIexing Grasshopper question:
Ia Roguss RIVER valley, Southern Ore.
gon, where was then llYlng, ihe grass
hOppers-lhe same identical insect We
had here last fall, eaIl them what you
wlll-came in such clouds That what We
had here was no comparison. They de-
sIroyed everything green on ths face
Of the earth. A valley, 100, that was lug
uranl with grass and all kinds O. Vegela.
non, was left like a Desert place, The
truIG trees were al destroyed, and even
the mistleloe on The oaks did not escape
their ravages. The farming cOmmunily
became SO disharrsned lhaI lots Of them
sold Tor whatthey could get aud lef. The
valley ~ disgust. They being inexPeri'
enced reasoned the matter about as
some DO here: that the eggs would be
hatehed, and consequently gould be more
numerous The nexl year but their fears
were entirely unlounded, for lhe negt
year there was n I o. 70 do any damage.
Shasta Valley Northern CalifOrnia, is
probably more troubled with grasshoPpeTs
than any other portion Of the United
Siages, ard yet they never have them tao
years IN successlon. Ths same is 1rus
Of Scots, Henry, Lake, Sierra Long,
Carson and other valleys. Ia 1857 they
eat anything green in Salt Lake Valley,
and came near Starving The MormOns
cut; since which time Brigham keeps
one years supply ahead. Knowing thar
they viii not come the second year, u Is
useless for me to bring any more proof
70 establish as we'll known q fact that
they do nOt reappeaTfrom the eggs % 60
any damage IN a country like this. Il is
only when they come from the dry, hot
pIalns, as was the case here, that they do
any damage. Even the naturalist, to
whom some specimens were sens from
Leavenworth, asserted the sams thing,
with very learned piece Of advice, 10
destroy all the eggs possible.
would say to the farming community
that they need not have any fears Of those
appearing from The eggs 10 do any dam.
age, no more Than though they never bad
been here. That they need have 90
fears about the grain which was sown az.
ter they left, and now thar The time for
sowing spring wheat is On hand, hope
that any one will nOs Be deferred from
doing so. on account Of The frivolous non,
sense about grasshopPsTs.
The following oailhe same subject We
find in a late number Of The Nebarska
City Press, and is signed "oios":
a few words on The subject Of ihs
GrasshoPPer visitation. Il is assumed By
the most Of our farmers, and by the pso-
pie of Kansasas well, thar because wS
we're visited in 1856 by Grasahoppsrs
which deposited their eggs 10 The grold,
that therefore we shall ia 1857 have an
Infinite number q them 10 eat out our
sd6slance do not know that this result
must necessarily follow. 10 1857 they
were as plentiful snd desiIucli4s in wes.
tern Iowa as they were in Nebraska and
Kansas II 1865 while 10 1858, she sue
.ceeding year they were very rarely seen.
Several gentlemen who had resided 10
the vicinity Of Council Bluffs since The
FIRST removal Of The POItawOt,amis In.
dians 10 that point, stated 10 ihe writer
Of this, thar TIE return Of tie GrasshoppeY
was not annually, but once in nine years.
As this theory seems % be eonfrme4 By
their appearance in 1856, I propose 70
accePsi II, and 20 SOW and plant This year
Just as If the dreaded insecl did no. exist,
and hope al our farmers viii do Tie same.