The Grasshopper Scourge

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 6, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 28, No. 23.

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The Grasshopper Scourge.

The Kansas farmers in Brown county and the adjacent territory, appear to have been lately subjected to a plague similar to those inflicted on Pharaoh. The obstinate grasshoppers appeared in countless numbers, covering a track twelve miles in width, and consuming almost all vegetation. The Marysville Enterprise says:—
“They alighted upon fields, gardens, fruit-trees, and everything green, or eatable; and like a march of two hundred and fifty army corps, devoured everything they touched. This whole country has been taken by them, and the rear-guard is still with us, guarding what vegetables and green leaves the army has left. Farmers are seriously alarmed lest the corn will be totally destroyed. They seem to be passing in a southwestern direction.”