The Litchfield County Post

From the Rutland (Vt.) Herald.

Ravages Of the Hoppers. We continue to receive the most lamentable accounts from various sections of this part of the country, of the continued and increased ravages of the grass-hoppers. The farmers having used all due diligence in arresting from the devouring insect the small pittance of grass which they have left—they seem to thicken among the English grain which remains unharvested, and the Indian corn, and many fields of wheat, rye and oats, are already more than half destroyed and some entirely so. In many instances the agriculturist is cutting down his grain in the milk for fodder, not having any hopes that the hoppers will leave any thing but the bare stock. When the grass and English grain is taken from the ground, the fields of corn adjacent are attacked with evident appearance of being utterly ruined.

These ravenous insects, it seems, are not confined to vegetables alone. They frequently seize upon clothes and wooden farming tools and utensils in many places where they are left in their way, in an incredible manner.— We have witnessed this fact among others ourselves. Laborers, who have thrown down their coats, vests, and handkerchiefs on the ground, have found them so much eaten, as to render them almost entirely worthless. Rakes and scythe snathes, have been eaten and made so rough in a few hours as to render it necessary to smooth them before they could be used without inconvenience. Thus are we visited like Egypt of olden time, and we know not that the ravages of the destroyer will be less calamitous.