The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-27

g1ng 1t more than the surrounding counties.
The heavy rain of Saturday night did not
/ diminish them perceptibly. Prof Reilly
says the grasshoppers Matched out this year
will not reproduce, and there will be very
| few in 1876.
TRENTON.
The grasshopper reports from some of the
western counties are quite alarming. In a
great portion of Platte and Clay counties
these pestiferous insects abound In myriads,
the ground in places resembling somewhat
one great ant hill They are very small as
yet, and do no harm, but it is not hard to
| imagine what such swarms may do when
they begin to spread. Some freight trains
on the roads have had difficulty in ascend
ing grades where the graashoppers covered
the rails. AS yet they have not been OBJ
served further east than Grayson, on the
line of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railroad.
BooNvILLE.
Grasshoppers are appearing just west and
southwest of our county, but there are none
in this immediate vicinity, so far as heard
We have learned, and from good authority,
that they are slowly appearing in Johnson,
and some parts of Pettis, Saline, and adioin-
ing counties. They are apparently travel.
terrible plague, as the farmers are now some
what discouraged by the slowly advancing
spring and warm weather. 1t is quite cool
for the season in this part of the state.
LEXINGTON.
The grasshoppers are fully as numerous
as reported yesterday. They are on the
move east, eating everything green in their
road. One farmer, south of this city, had
fifteen acres of corn eaten by them yester-
day in three hours. They moved it down
close to the ground, just as if moving ma
chine had cut it. All the tobacco plants in
the upper part of the county have been eaten
by them. The 'hoppers are still Matching on
the north side of the hills. We saw some
small ones this evening. 1t is utterly inn
possible to attempt to describe their num-
bers. Thew have to be seen before one can
form any idea of the quantity.
ST. JOSEPH.
Reports from the country to-day are
rather discouraging. New armies are being
brought into existence daily. and are taking
everything before them. Heretofore, they
have only attacked gardens, spring wheat
and corn, but within the past two DAYS they
have commenced on the winter wheat and
are utterly destroying it. Within the last
three days they have appeared as far west as
Waterville, Kan, though not in large guam
titles. IL is impossible now to tell the
exact extent Of territory over which they
will depredate, as they are Matching out in |
sections where no eggs were supposed to be |
deposited.
The grasshoppers in this immediate Sec
ton have not as yet done much damage. |
They did not reach this point last season. |
They, however, infested the country be- |
tween Cameron and the Missouri river, do
ing injury TO the amount of thousands of |
dollars ito the crops. The indications are |
millions of them are slowly vending their
way eastward, being the product of the eggs
deposited last year. 1t is said that they |
will not attain their full growth for several
months yet, and during this time they Will
Of necessity make this section their abiding
place. Our farmers are not at all hopeful,
and await the incoming of this scourge |
with feelings akin to despair.
KANSAS CITY.
The wholesale mortality continues among
he grasshoppers in this county, and farmers
ire hopeful that crops may yet be saved.
OF pests are dying here, one man
'hoveling up fifteen bushels from alongside
stone fence. The number of them in va
'ious localities surpasses belief, the ground
being covered five or six inches deep, none
~ IueLu DcluR bDdu Sludll CIlCk6I.
Thew have not commenced to lay eggs yet,
Ind If the present. wet weather continues,
hey will die off, so as not to leave unpleas-
INT reminders behind. Trains on the Coun-
Ill Bluffs road came near being stopped by |
hem this morning. Near st. Joe the rails
we're covered, they having located them
elves there to get out of the wet. Your |
has information from vsri- !
,us points as follows: At st. Joseph, great
damage has been done, but they are now
eeving. At Leavenworth there are not as
many as there are here, but they are smaller
Ind more active. But little damage has S
;een done to crops. At Lawrence, Kan, {
thousands of red legs and most disastrous I
esults from their visit. They are begin I
ling to die here. At Topeka and along the t
xsnsa- Pacific railroad, condition the same. &
Ii Fort Scott more encouraging news than 1
with wheat still growing nicely, {
md hoppers flying northwest. At Lees
summit, Pleasant Hill, Independence, Mo, ,
armers filled with forebodings for the fu-
ure, their only hope that the late corn will I
ONE out o. K. Many of the Jackson county 1
Ormers are sending away for a certain kind :,
t late seed corn, which will make crop
ven after the Goth of this month.