Nebraska advertiser., 1867-05-23

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lowing selections of this lively litde IN
sect:
The Liberty mo. Union Publishes a
correspondence from an old settler who
says:
The grssshoppers made their appear
ance on the I2lh and 18Th Of September,
1920. They fell as thick as bail. dark
ening The sky as if the sun was eclipsed;
the earth was completely alive with Them.
They stripped and devoured every green
thing, and deposited their eggs In the
ground by bushels. What would be the
result the people knew not they were
hopeful than the freeze would kill them
during the winter, but not SO. Next
spring, about the 18th of May, they
hatched out BY the billions, and the earth
was again literally alive with them, and
thev commenced the work Of destruction.
entirely devastating The cotton, fax,
wheat, hemp and tobacco crops, but to
the great Joy Of all. the young corn es-
capped %uninjured. As soon as their wings
grew cut they lsft-cbout the 18Th Of
June. They came from a southwest d.
rection and went off in a northeast
course.
The Weston (bIo. Border Times says
they are Matching out in that vicinity 6y
the million but predicts they viii leave
without DOING much damage.
The Kansas City Advertiser, 15th,
says:
The gr~asshoppers are said TO be dis
appearing in some localities. They hatch
and grow 10 about bali their usual size
when from some cause they suddenly dis
appear. They are confined 10 localities.
In one field they will be found q large
numbers, while IN others not one can be
seen. They have done no harm as yet,
nor is il probable that they will, for even
should they appear IN as great numbers
as they did last fall, they will ia ali pro-
babllily migrate before the crops could in
any degree be affected by them.
The 81. Joseph Herald speaks of them
in that vicinity, but looks for them to dis
appear without doing much damage. In
that vicinity they seem TO have halched
out only on light sandy soil in favorable
localities. The Herald tells Of 2 farmer
in Jackson county. No, who, last fall,
sased his winter wheat by scattering hay
srounI his field last fall, the ErasshOp-
pers would gather in II at night when be
would set FIRE TO II and burn them up
This, repeated several times, saved his
wheat which is now doing fine.
A writer in a Colorado paper says:
"Here,i in Colorado, IN The fall Of 1864.
myriads Of these insects invaded this
section, pretty thoroughly cleaned out
our farmers, deposited their eggs, and
left for parts unknown. The following
spring the young the young ones were
Matched. and more than 'cl aned US oui.'
leaving after their wings had grown.
In 1bis vicinity they have Matched in
patches only, and are doing comparative
ly no damage save on new ground broken
up last year, where they are feeding to
a considerable extent. In some instance
they are preYing upon wheat on new
ground while within forty rods wheat up
on ole ground is untouched. Another
circumstance which COMEDIES with the
Kansas city article is that although they
have been Matching in this vicinity for
the past four weeks we have heard of
not over a dozen, and have seen none,
that were half or eEen quarter grown,
the largest being about the size Of a com
mon house ay, at this point they either
stop growing or disappear, and we are
inclined to the latter idea as their num-
Der seemed about the same up to the lale
heavy rains, since which they seem to be
lessened BY at least one.half.
In this connection it may not be amiss
TO give The result Of an experiment made
by Col. Furnas in his garden in this city.
He saturated saw dust 10 coal oil and
sprinkled it around his plants, and AYERS
that since that they have damaged moth
ing in the vicinity Of the coal oil and
saw dust.