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Show THE CSASSHOPPER PLAGUE. In the late grasshopper convention Governor Pennington of Dakota U r-' r-' rilory could suggest nothing in the ' way of a remedy. He had little con-! con-! fidenco in any physical means of destruction. In Ll.cs quantities in ! which they came in Dakota, piling inches deep on the ground, housc-and housc-and trees, so thick that horses would hardly go through them and even interlenng with the running of rah road trains, they were too numerous to be caimht in any kind of traps or killed. He thought best to encourage the grow th of crops which could he grown and githercd in spit-j of the plaques. Some men in Dakota said that the 'hopper had always bctm there, ami others that they were a uew thing. From his own knowledge, three years " back, they bad had them every year. n July, lS4 he had never seen a belter propped for a corn crop than ihey h.id hud that year; hut in that section, from Yankton to Siitux city, s the corn was wholly nn-l absolutely destroyed, and not a bushel was gath i eaed for sixty miles. Thoro was I nothing left hut a part of the stalk, f Neverthi less ihey hd made a good t crop ol wheat, oats and pot itoes. i He was a tidied that the penple of ; Dakota could prosper (even though the 'hoppers came every Tear) by planting only such grains as woild be i matured before tne pests came. The moml tiled bad been worse than anything else. The territory hud been damaged ten times more by the pani'1 than by ihe grasshoppers. . Newspapers and other frightened prwple had done more harm than jiriud by applying for aid in the cast, tie had stood out in 1874 as lone as pnsaible Hgainst the appeal for alms. Tv.e p.ople who came ibere were po.ir and tney needed help every wiutcr anyhow, but the people of the territory terri-tory were ;tb!y to succor Mieir own liohtilul.: larnitrd without outside aid. In 1S7-1, att'T all tho harm bad beeu dune nod they had received the paltry sum of from S3. 000 to $7,000 there wv.ii lm.idre.daoI (housaudsof bushels of surplus grain shipped out of southern south-ern Dakota lo Chicago. They were able to take care of their own. In 1S75 Ibe hoppers were just as numerous as before, coming from tbe northeast aud going southeast, hut none came down, and be didn't know of $10 worth of damage done. They had the biggest crops ever known. Professor Riley asked whether they were not going in an opposite direction direc-tion from those of 1S74. Governor Pennington replied, no; they always go the same way. This year the damage to the wheat crops would not be 5 per cent., and the crop is very tood. They had gathered gath-ered eood crops ol wheal, oats, and evervthimr but corn, which varied from one lourtu to one half a crop. ' By (all breaking and early seeding in Hie spring, wheat could he wholly siive l without dam.ge, and one object oi isie c .invention, he thought, ?ras to reus: u re tbe people. He believed tlie people of Dakota could feed themselves them-selves and the grasshoppers too, and yet row rich. Iu Dakota the hoppers were all foreigners, not natives, coming there full grown, and his people had had nn ex nf rienen with those which hatched out. They would eat off the tops of potatoes, but not the potaloe in the ground. In regard to the action of the government, gov-ernment, Gov. Pennington said he wa rather disposed to be modest in his requests, llie territory having only a populalioa of 50,000, and being a waii cf the government. He thought the general government might at least appoint a com mis sion to investigate the subject. He was, however, disposed not to petition for financial aid, as it demoralized demor-alized the people and made mandi-cancy mandi-cancy honorable among some classes of people. lie would urge fall plowing ai d eany smving, relying on small grains; and ihey could thus muke a living. Governor Hardin came to learn not to enlighten. If' this pest was te ravage thousands of miles, it would bo beyond the power ol man to stop it. tin had thought ihey might be destroyed in their breeding places, in Dakou and Idaho, but Governor Pennington Pen-nington had stated that they came 'from beyond those territories, from the wastes of the British provinces, 'in 1S74, many grasshoppers came and laid eggs in Missouri, and that stale had a big lot iu 1S75; for a time there was great danger in thirteen or fourteen counties, but they left in June, and by late planting they raised one ol the finest crops ever known, and they ware troubled by no other varieties cf insects. He had been asked to convene the legislature for special aid to the people, but bo had not done so. Ho thought that congress ought to do something, by at least appointing a committee of investigation. lie shou:d even suggest to his own legislature legis-lature to establish commissions to cull on the people to fight the pests in their iilEicted districts, and make it a matter of police or military duty. He didn't know exactly what coultl bo done. 1 They had done everything practicable, hut after they had destroyed de-stroyed millions upou millions, there were st;il millions upon millions to ome. |