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Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year 1875 During the past year, a most destructive dispensation of grasshoppers was visited upon several of our Western States - Missouri, Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska, and, to some extent, Colorado and Dakota. In many places, the destruction of all vegetable life was total, threatening not only the existence of the population for the time being, but depriv ing them of all hepe of the means of planting for the next season, the possible result of which was the depopulation of the whole country thus afflicted. But Congress wisely interposed, and through the instrumen tality of the Quartermaster's Department of the Army supplied the ah solute necessities of the people, and through this Department made provision for a supply of seed for the coming year by an appropriation of I cannot adequately express the idea of the benefit and encouragement which were thus bestowed upon a people who were al most left without hope. A correspondent, in acknowledging the receipt of seed sent him, says: The seed is most acceptable, for it relieves me from a state of hopelessness; but it cannot do me half as much good as it does to know that we have a Government that cares for her distressed people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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