Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1901 — Grasshoppers Devastating Minnesota. [ARTICLE]

Grasshoppers Devastating Minnesota.

Portions of the Township of Russia, Minn., near Crookston, are being devastated by grasshoppers, and in some localities they are destroying large areas. A farmer from the township says his place of 160 acres seems doomed to be swept clean. Sixty acres of it, he says, are now bare and clean of all vegetation. The insects are so numerous that It is Impossible to walk through the fields with one’s eyes open. Millions of hoppers have settled on the sidewalks here, and walking Is exceedingly perilous.