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unfit for transplanting. Just how long this work has been going on 

 is impossible to say, for the tobacco farmers were attributing all the 

 injury to the Flea Bug. 



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Fig. 35.— Tobacco Plant from Tobacco Seedbed, showing 

 injury by Grouse Locust, about natural size. 



(Photograph by the author.) 



The adult grasshopper (Fig. 34) is about half an inch long, dark 

 yellowish-brown in color. The grasshoppers of this group are readily 

 distinguished from other short-horned grasshoppers by the fact that 

 the back of the grasshopper is extended in a long, narrow, pointed 

 projection which partially covers and extends beyond the end of the 



