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Oak Point, Manitoba Lake) Man. (J. Clarke.) Produced 

 here from tho eg£, hatching about June first. Left about the 

 end of July, going soutli west. No winged swarms observed to 

 arrive. No grain sown. Potatoes and hay meadows consider- 

 ably damaged. No egg^ known to have been deposited. 



Pigeon Lake, Man. (J. M. Haure.) Produced here from 

 the egg, hatching from 15th of May till 15th of July. Com- 

 menced flying July 10th, and continued leaving till the middle 

 of August, going south and south-cast. Foreign swarms seen at 

 various time — first on July 1st — passing overhead. These came 

 from south and south-west, and went north-westward as a rule. 

 No grain raised in Parish of Francois Xavier. No eggs known 

 to have been deposited. 



St. Francois Xavier West, Man. (F. Dauphenais.) Pro- 

 duced here from the e^, hatching early in May. Began to 

 leave about the 10th of July, going south. Locusts arrived on 

 the wing from the south-west about the 25th of July. Said to 

 have kept coming and going, occasionally alighting. Left early 

 in August, going south. Three-fourths of crop in the parish 

 destroyed. No eggs deposited. 



Heading?!/, Man. (J. Taylor.) Produced here from the 

 es:^, hatching obout the end of May. Left from the middle to 

 the end of August, uoing southward. Winged swarms arrived 

 from vaiious directions, but more especially from the south. 

 Myriads lit about the 20th of July. Eventually flew southward 

 with those hatched here. Three-quarters of crop, or probably 

 about 10,000 bushels destroyed. No eggs deposited. 



St. Charles, Man. (A. Murray, M.P.P.) Produced here 

 from the egg, hatching from about the 10th of May to July 1st 

 in successive swarms. On arriving at maturity went south-east, 

 ward. About July 10th winged swarms arrived from the west 

 and left in the same direction as those produced here, the latter 

 in many cases rising and mingling with them. Entire grain 

 crop destroyed, and only a few inferior potatoes harvested. No 

 eggs deposited. 



Ruckwood, Man. (J. Robinson.) Produced here from the 

 egg, hatching about the middle of June. Left about the last of 

 August, going south-east. Swarms passed overhead about July 

 first, coming from the south. All crops destroyed. 



