New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-22
THE CHRISTOPHER PLAGUE.
GRASSHOPPERS EAST OF THE MISSOURI.
THEIR FURTHER ADVANCE IMPOSSIBLE

iBY TELEGRAPH TO TRIBUNE
Sr. LOUIS May 21-The grasshOppers have al
ready done much damage in the ten counties on the
western border of this State. The eastern part of
Kansas and Nebraska and narrow strip Of country
In Western Iowa are liable to some injury when the
grasshoppers eggs hatch out and there will doubt
less be much more alarm. The alarm is groundless.
There is no danger of the young insects doing much
damage east of the general line indicated, and no
prospect whatever of repetition of the invasion by
ful-grown insects next Fall. The young insects
just Matched will not begin to get wings and conse-
quently be able to move beyond their present
limis before the end of June. BY that time the
crops will be mainly beyond danger. The second
generation of these insects soon pershes and cannot
reproduce itself w. NJ. GRosvENoR.
AMONG THE SUFFERERS IN NEBRASKA.
TALKS WITH THE FARMERS ON THE STRICKEN FROM
TIER-BARLEY INSTEAD OF CORN-wHERE THE
TIMBER LIEs-DIsTRIBUTioN OF sUPPLIEs-HOT
BREATH FROM THE soUTH-wEsT-THE PROSPECT
ON THE BORDERS DIsCoURAGING.
lFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TEIBUNE.l
KEARNEY, Neb., April 3O.-The distance
nom Krwin TO the Republican River is about 80 miles,
and the town thereon is Republican City, which about
ave miles beyond the Kansas lne and Of course, in
Nebraska There number Of farms along the road,
and In talking with the farmers learned that the best of
them raised little wheat but everything else de-
did better than his neghbors and that he had 40 bushels
Of wheat part Of which ground and the rest
led TO his horses and TO hog. lie considered il poor
iced for horses but much for hogs makes fat
slowly and the pork is tough and decidedly dstasteful
Even TO poultry it is unsatisfactory. Much Of the
poultry Of the country died last Winter. On
he road met many teams loaded mostly with seed
wheat still there considerable -four and
meal al from Kearney. The supply of seed wheat is
nearly equal to the demand The Kansas Pacific fur
nished large quantity OF seed wheat last Fall at tre
than 81 bushcl taking farmers notes payable in one
year. Two carloads of barley daily expected at
Keaney from California learn that so bushels Of
oats Topeka from the Agricultural Depart
Washington, done up little sacks, and II
ander consideration what was 10 be done with it. or
course, it be Of no service until the sacks are
emptied and the grain placed in bulk, TO do which re-
qures little labor Had the grain been sent in bulk,
such quantity could have been shipped as would nave
OF benefit. but TO send such little packages
cooked like trinng with the people.
wish to refer here to what seems to me proper
for the farmers OF Western Kansas and Nebraska
TO pursue II is doubtful whether they will be able to
i've they depend raising because the months
Of July and August usually without rain That there
we're timely rains years and that corn was sold
FOR than % cents bushel, was probably mis-
fortune because the people were led to believe that te
would rain every year They ought TO raise barley
instead Their money crop should be wheat for
sety they have at present is unfit and much OF the
seed sown this year is exceedingly poor. i have
rarely such poor bread their wheat makes though
ii is likely that their mills not yet good At the best
The bread made from their wheat must be dark sticky
and unhralthful. Wheat from Colorado and New-Mexco
GOWN i'm February or March should much salts
factory, probably the Winter wheat OF California
would suit much better 1t Is raised without rrlgato
and in Kansas and Nebraska in California there are
sufficient rains the FAN TO grain TO germinate
Tho IN
June and July il will rpen hard and bright Oats and rye
ought also do well Confined TO these crops settle
ments safely be pushed $50 200 miles beyond the
Tooth meridian in which the country will become
habtable rich The trouble at present the farmers
rannot make experiments and if they fail this year the
rase is serious.
might wen add here that the restitution or inc
destruction crops last year was by no means confned
to the part of these two States ior the drouh
was severe through the eastern sections, while the grass
hoppers crowded the Missouri and even beyond ana
they spread over an 270 miles from east to west ana
more than $50 miles from north to sonth ana they
afflicted population of about tlreequarters OF million
The people in the older regions were fully abe 10 meet
the losses and the destruction caused by grassnopes oc
curing five years is of little consequence IN COM
harrison with what may be called permanent drouth.
After one leaves the North Fork OF the solomon and IFS
tributaries timber and seems That inc country
these streams is quite We'll t0ered t nrsr R
yond these streams north and SOUTH the proloitoh IL
l2 Ceut This IctNcs out
publjca ami its tributaries some of which wei tim
bered Prairie Dog Creek tributary OF the RepuDilcdl
well timbercd: so also arc the Beaver ana the Sappy
indeed astonished 10 learn that settlements nav
been pushed up streams almost To the CoOra0 ihc
and into the region where IT has pce ISn
yan eaf1 o by wate and the forests
Beyond the Republican no tnner wa h se tb Pte o
and here scarcely any is TO be found. . ?.
The Republican was fOrded Win some hlnEINihsS
runs through prairie bottom four miles wide, having
low sandy banks, and ii is about 800 Ieet Wide anu e.
feet deep; certainly fine stream AZ tlS ur sesU 9l
there has been no rain since last Fall The Republican Is
mystical river because little is known OF Us UPPER
COURSE Among the many hunters anu pli,hs1, W.
whom have conversed have found few who could give
,nforma ton in regard this river The general state
ment is made that its waters sink ana rise I'D fy
places Mr. Greeley followed 1t several huiue1 iIG
and finally he struck southwark into the smoky mn
trail Republican CITY, which Is about d-T MIN tht
Of the line Of Colorado wa' told by several nen .na
there was abundance OF timber on the upper WaeIs any
That there was plenty OF water had large bodies of
timber OF excellent quality, and that an isC nm
N the negbborbood of Denver and work their way RS
ing and sinking. while wide beds gfa aye ANU fnra,
dow1 ttn IL known or only this that there is the heart
Of the buffalo region and thither 90 the souA
The road 10 Kearney the Republican leads across
high divide. Here and there farms nav t or ants
and the scarcity of timber is indicated by the
of the inhabitants, the roofs OF winch tse o" the
above the general level would say tn pa e8 nine
tenths Of the farmhouses are dugouts, Ti. and
roofs door being at one end On o 70 the ground
Many Of these houses warm durlig tIe
weather that it is necessary to keep the windows open
Sometimes there are two beds sometimes there Is only
and ii Is not uncommon IoI mn LEV IN the
towns there are few such houses ' ,%e
the divide between the Republican ana the fi 10 W
northern limit OF phenomenon known as the not SOUTH
west wind which during dry Summers blows Tor days ana
time aud during is nS Mtl Psc gese
ton almost like In moist seasons II Is not ie !.
is sad to be caused sS Sy agas as miles upon miles
plowed strips all over the COUNT! aSeSi Mpdpv ~