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.sited, but many said to have been destroyed by " small red 

 insects." The whole of the oats and barley, -three-fourths of 

 wheat, and four-fifths of garden stuff destroyed. 



St. James, M. — (Hon. J. McKay.) Mr. McKay furnishes 

 various particulars, from which I extract the following points of 

 interest : — No grasshoppers were hatched in Manitoba in 1874. 

 The nearest breeding ground for the swarms is said to have been 

 about 250 miles west, and thence to extend westward for about 

 400 miles. The nearest swarms moved in July and passed St. 

 James overhead, going eastward, about the end of July. Other 

 swarms from further west arrived about the beginning uf August, 

 and left after a few days without doing much damnge. Then 

 came larger swarms till the middle of August, carrying every- 

 thing before them. Estimated that two-thirds of crops of 

 entire province destroyed. 



Winnipeg, 31. — (James Stewart and R. H. Kenning). Not 

 produced from the egg here. Swarms arrived July 14th from 

 south-west, and the majority remained about two months, leav- 

 ing about the middle or end of September, and going to the 

 west and north-west. Many remained, however, till killed by 

 frost. Eggs were deposited about the end of August, and it is 

 reported that some young insects came out and were destroyed 

 by frost in autumn. 



The whole of the oats and barley, and about one- fourth of 

 wheat destroyed. 



Mr. Stewart observed that nine-tenths of the grasshoppers had 

 small red parasites under the wing, and that those remaining 

 late in the autumn had, almost invariably, each a fully developed 

 grub within it. 



Little Britain, M. — (Hon. D. Gunn.) Not produced from 

 the egg here. Swarms first appeared July 17th, from the south 

 and south-west, and continued passing over the settlement till 

 the last of August. Those that alighted deposited eggs, and 

 generally left afterwards east or south-east. Many eggs depo- 

 sited. Crops destroyed, about one-third. 



In a more recent communication (February, 1876), Mr. Gunn 

 states that, the spring of 1875 having been late, the young 

 locusts from the eggs began to appear about the tenth of May, 

 and continued to come out until the end of that month. They 



