the vast numbers or quantity of these insects that had appeared. They live but a short time, seldom more than from one to two weeks. These insects should not be confounded with the locusts; for the locust is a masticating insect and may well be feared for the time being, for if they come in multitudes, they are capable of destroying fields of grain and meadows in their way. But this insect, the genuine destructive locust, has never yet appeared, in this part of the world. Varieties of the locust family do appear in the form of grass hoppers and their co-relatives, which many times commit serious mischief; against these no remedy has been discovered by man's wisdom. The only protection against them is to be found in the philosophy before alluded to of check and counter-check in the insect world. Wheat, bushels, 11,464 31,321 21,216 12,475 18,120 13,952 9,883 17,200 31,056 18,036 16,527 20,325 10,789 12,108 18,019 251,027 4,165 8,529 3,671 7,685 5,697 12,353 14,785 5,285 6,926 3,078 3,417 7,831 100,837 8871 882 366 859 693 330 621 1,358 399 607 688 447 614 923 9,674 2,475 1,963 1,291 1,563 963 961 1,651 2,304 1,919 1,316 1,729 798 1,260 1,332 21,525 ... 338 208 306 305 90 246 44 281 146 167) 314 078 90 133 2,746 814 3,220 789 1,451 1,222 173 26,301 $9,040 $204,576 639,915 43,081 523 446 427 521 3,933 4,321 6,053 1,070 6,780 12,785 16,648 117,549 12,720 6,673 44,414 5,473 16,846 1,431 519 4,217 29 901 276 35 200 91 2 10 7 505 602 Lenox. Lebanon. Madison. Nelson. Smithfield. Stockbridge. Sullivan. TOTAL. TABLE Showing trades, capital and product in the various towns of Madison County. [Ag. Trans. 1852.] |