Vernon L. Kellogg points out how the evil of the great grasshopper
plague that visited some Western States about forty years ago, entailed
disaster on the whole country:
Over thousands and thousands of square miles of the great
granary of the land were spread the hordes of hoppers. Farmers
and stockmen were being ruined. Then the storekeepers and
bankers that sell things and lend money to the farmers. Then the
lawyers and doctors that depend on the farmers’ troubles to earn
a living. Then the millers and stock-brokers and capitalists of
the great cities that make their fortunes out of handling and
buying and selling the grains the farmers send in long trains
to the centers of population. Everybody, the whole country, was
aghast and appalled at the havoc of the hopper. (Text.)--“Insect
Stories.”
(1358)
=Head-hunters=--See BARBARISM.
=Headlight Requirements=--See ILLUMINATION.