Show r L irive I 1 Iri r V Vm in J T A I 1 I 1 F ajo hjo f ra kansas n sn C civan I 1 a letter to tho the advertiser gives the following ns is his experience in reference to the perplexing gi ak I 1 in n ilg q rive 0 r oregon i where I 1 was then I 1 living iving the grasshoppers grassi alic sanio identical insect wo we had here last fall call them what you will canic came in such clouds that wb what at we had bad hero was no comparison they des destroyed everything green ae n an tho the face of the earth A valley too that was luxuriant with grass and all kinds of vegetation was left like a desert place the fruit trees were all destroyed and even the mistletoe on the oaks did not escape the ravagers the farming community became so heartened disheartened dis that lots of them sold for what they could get and left the valley in disgust they being inexperienced reasoned the tac matter mattei about as some do here that aba t the eggs 0 would be hatched and consequently would bo more numerous t the ic next year but their fears were entire ly unbounded for the next nest y year car there was tas none io to d do 0 any damage Shasta valley northern california i ia probably more troubled aith with gries grass I 1 I 1 hoppers than any other poi gioi f t the lle united states and yet they never have them two years in in succession the same is true of scots heni henry y lake sierra long Car carson soll an and other dother valleys in 1851 1857 they cat everything gr green cen in in salt lake valley and came near starr ing the mormons cormons out since which time brigham keeps one year s supply ahead knowing that they will not come the second year it is useless for me to bring any more proof to establish as well known a fact that they do not reappear from the eg eggs s to do any damage in in a country like this it is only when they come fi from oin the dry hot plains as was the case here that they do any damage even the naturalist to whom some specimens were sent froni from the same thing with a very learned piece of advice to destroy all the eggs pos possible gible I 1 wo would U ld say to the farming community that that they need not have any fears those rot appearing from the eggs to do any da damage I 1 nage no more than though they never had been here th that at they need have no fears about the grain which was bowed after they left and now that the time for sowing spring wheat t js is on b barid a I 1 hope that any one will wilf liot not be deterred from doing so on account of the frivolous nonsense about grasshoppers |