Already scourged by drought and low prices, western farmers were last week at grips with another enemy, a crawling, flying, leaping multitude of grasshoppers (Caloptenus spretus). For weeks they had been springing from the hot, dry soil of seven midwest states, big, hardy insects able to eat five times their own weight each day. By last week they had ravaged 100 counties, leaving 55,000 sq. mi. of farmland sear and blighted. By the millions they stripped North Dakota of its already shriveled wheat. They munched the head-high corn of Iowa and Nebraska...
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