Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — Grasshopperological Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Grasshopperological Statistics.

A live grasshopper will eat a dead grasshopper. A Missouri farmer mixed paris green and bran together and let a grasshopper eat it; it died; 20 ate him up; they died; 400 ate those 20, and they died 8,000 ate those 400, and they died; 160,000 ate those 8,000 and they died and the farmer was troubled no more. In its flight from the far west, says our informant, the name of the statistician of this story has become separated from his figures, but tbe fact that this oooured in Missouri is regared as evidence of its possibility.