The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-03
AS Yet No Damage Has Result
ed in Kansas.
Column Eighteen Miles Wide in
New Mexico.
GOVERNMENT AGENTS BUSY
Exaggerated Reports of DAM
age Generally Denied.
Spearsville Reports Damage
From Cut-WOrm.

| Hutchinson, June 3.-Reports of
| damage by grasshopperS and army
| worms in this portion of Kansas, told
about in eastern papers. are greatly
| overdrawn. Locally no damage has
| been done to any of the field crops by
either, though in Pawnee and parts
of Barton, Stafford and Mcpherson
counties there are some localities
where the cut worm has done slight
damage in cornfieIds. Pawnee coun-
| ty also reports millions of young
| more than any other in recent years.
Ed Schrepel, south of Ellinwood,
| says he will have to plant one field of
| corn over.
Some farmers near Spearville, Ford
county, say the worms have injured
| a few rows of corn, but there is no
grasshopper damage, Other farmers
| in Barton county, near Great Bend,
say that there is positively no damage
from either the grasshoppers or army
worms.
The dry weather has injured the
wheat to a large extent in all coun-
ties west of Reno, but the corn and
the alfalfa is doing exceptionally well.
Joplin, June 3.-"Reports from mil
lers and grain growers in a territory
extended from CoffeyVille, Kan. to 250
miles east, made to the Southwest
indicate the slightest danger from
grasshoppers to the crops" said w.
H. Marshall, secretary of the associa-
ton today.
st. Joseph, June 3.-Seventeen year
locusts have appeared on number of
farms in northwest Missouri. Far
mers say they are not present in
alarming mum berS but they may dc
some damage later in the season.
No army worms have been noticed
in this district.
like a grasshopper year." was the
comment today by Professor F. NJ.
Webster of the bureau of entomology
after the fourth outbreak of the in
vaders had been reported to him. The
latest appearance of the hoppers is in
Kansas, previous states afflicted being
New Mexico, Idaho and. California.
The department of agriculture regards
the New Mexico outbreak so seriously
that Harrison E. Smith, expert in
the division of forage insect inveStiga-
ton, has been ordered from Wellirg-
ton, Kan, to the scene of trouble. He
reported his arrival today at Amarillo,
Texas. Further grasshopper raids in
various parts of the country are look
ed for, although it is not believed by
officials here that any of them will do
great damage.
An army worm invasion reported
today as having occurred near st.
Louis is giving the governments insect
fighters here considerable worry it
was acknowledged. Telegrahpic in
StructionS were sent to a department.
field agent to take imm ediate steps to
combat the pests.
ST. Louis, June 3.-No reports of
damage to the crops by the army worm
have been received by the secretary
of the St Louis merchants exchange.
Huge Swarm in New Mexico.
Roswell, n. M, June 3.-The column
of grasshoppers that invaded Elida, in
northeastern New Mexico last week,
has moved east and is continuing in
a northeastern direction, according to
advices received today. The pests de-
lawns in Elida. The column is about
8 miles in width. Its progress is slow,
the grasshoppers not having developed
wings.
Professor A. G.. Hammar, govern
ment entom ologist here has sent speci-
mems to department headquarters in
Washington.
No Damage in Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, June 3.-No report of
threatened depredations by grasshop>
pers come from points in this section |
of the state.
Locust Comparatively Harmless.
Kansas City, June 3.-According to
E. A. Aikenberry, farm adviser for
Jackson county, the locusts which are |
reported to have appeared in large |
numbers in parts of Missouri and |
Kansas, are of a comparatively harm |
less species.
They are of the 17-year kind" Mr. |
Aikenberry said today, 'and do little |
damage. They are now laying eggs
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