The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-12
GEE GmassIuoppER A BURDEN.

Centuries upon centuries ago. the wise
man wrote ''In the morning COW Thy seed,
and in tie evening withhold not thine
hand for thou knowest not whether
shall prosper, either this OF that, or whether
they both shall be alike good" So the set
tiers on the frontier of Kansas and Nebras-
ka sowed their seed in the morning and,
Withholding not their hands in the evening,
saw, apparently that all their crops
wheat. corn, oats, potatoes, sorghum, etc.
were prospecting but sudden and I'M
pectcd calamity rendered them alike by in
volying them in a common destruction
Whatever meaning the same preacher may
have intended to convey by the expression
1.-THE grasshopper shall be burden" how
ever figurative its use may have been, 1t is
with these people literal reality with
them the grasshopper has been "burden"
TOO grievous to be borne, and unless relief
is promptly extended to them will come
the time, long before the ''almond tree
shall flourish" or "desirc fail" when they
will go to their ''long home" leaving no
mourners to 60 about the streets. The re-
lief demanded is only temporary, simply to
carry them through the hardships of the
winter and spring and to afford them seed
for the crops of the coming year. We
need not state to our readers that large por-
tons of the most fertile parts of the new
and growing states of Nebraska and Kan
sas were, last summer and fall, oyerrun
with innumerable 'fiocks' of grasshop-
pers, who ravaged aud devastated the
country, absolutely destroying every green
thing upon the face Of the earth or under
the earth This they already know, but
they may not fully understand the tenn
porary restitution and want resultant
therelrom. We say only temporary des-
tituton,' because, according to General
Brisbin and Governor Sanders agents to
procure relief for the sufferers, next
year the grasshoppers will doubtless &c
the benetlciaries may become the bencfac-
tors hereafter" lie explains TINT the
bug or "fiy" when it first emerges from
the ground-for the egg is laid in the
ground aud the valley Of the Republican Is
full of holes where they have been depos.
tied, each deposit producing from two to
three hundred grasshoppers--i not vora
cious, does no damage, bu, crawls slug.
gishly over the ground They are, soon
after, capable Of long flights, and these
flights so whet their appetite that when
they alight, the grass and nearly every
growing thing goes down before them at
before terrific whirwind or fire. Theii
path Is from west to cast, being observed
last year, at the foot of the Black Hills ant
Bad Lands; and, this year. ''they entered
to use their language, "ihe beautiful ant
fertile state Of Nebraska along its north
western boundary, aud swept the eartl
clear as they went passing out over the
southern boundary Of Kansas" Theil
number and the length of their flight NAV
be gained from the further fact stated BY
them, that they were three days in passing
over the city of Omaha, and continued
their flight some one hundred and fifty
miles as is inferred from finding none
nearer in that direction. If the facts and
theory are correct, us they doubtless are
the relief required can be only temporary
because the fertile soil of these must return
an abundant harvest another year If seet
can DO obtained and, always providing