Grasshoppers in Colorado.
THE grasshoppers have again made their appearance. The Central City Register, of Aug. 11, says:— “Looking toward the sun at noon to-day, the cloud of grasshoppers was utterly impenetrable. But on all sides to the utmost limit of vision it was the same, though less clearly defined. Yesterday there was a strata which struck the earth and covered every inch of space, while the higher stream passed on westward. To-day the stream, with occasional droppings, is direct and rapid. If any cause, such as a suddenly injected cold current from the west, should precipitate this dense mass of insects to our level, the fall would cover the earth to the depth of from two to three feet. They are as thick as snow flakes in the heaviest winter storm, and moving in a ceaseless current westward. Happily they can do no further damage here. “Mr. Chamberlain, who arrived from Laporte yesterday, said: ‘If this cloud settles upon the belated crops of Larimer and Weld the farmers will be entirely ruined, because their fields are behind those of warmer localities, and no part has yet been harvested.’ . . . We cannot help feeling a deep sympathy for those farmers who, with ripening crops almost ready for the sickle, had calculated on paying off at least part of their debts, but are again plunged into despair and almost irrecoverable poverty.”