Crops And Hoppers

The fruit prospecta of Ncbraska are very fiattering at present. Thebe aro reporta of youug grasshoppors at Cairo, but we have not been ablo to determine their train. At 'Söldén, Mo, tüö fowÏÏ is full of 1 hoppers, (ardens ill dewtroyod, wheat, Date, corn and grass swept away. OuAssnoprjsBS are nngrating to Wlkuoiisin, and many are to be seen in the oóunty.of Fon du Lac and vicinity. In Northern Kansas and Nebraska about fivo per cent. of the spring erop I has been taken by the hoppers. A TíAiíoer proportion of corn and llax will be produced in Nebraska thanustwL Tho hoppers don't like tlie ehange. Corn, ilax, oats and tho cultivated giiwses have sufferod a good doal in mauy parts of Missoiiri lrom tho peats. A Kichmond, Missouri, diKpatch says the grasshoppers, chinch-bugs and cutworma, since the late rains, are hatching in great numbers. In Dpniphan conuty and vicinity, Kansas, some thirty per cent. of the crops havi! been taken. The land, much of it, is replantea to corn. Droitth in Franco and gfrasshopperg in the TJjiited Statos give approhousions of tho riae of tho grain market in Europe, but the recent declino in prices stijl continúes. Haiïvestinq has already begun in the Golden Stato. Tho yield of wheat in th" central portion will bo poor, in the southern portion it will bo up to the average in amount and ijuality. Tin-: army trorm han appeared ín Alcxaadei county, 111., and is destroying crops at a fearful rate. One farm of 150 acres of corn was destroyed in a few hours on Monday, although forty men were iighting theni. üther ravages are reportad.