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the coming season. We know that their enemies are now present 

 in the devastated fields, that the long, warm autumn and open win- 

 ter have heen favorable for the destruction of the eggs, and that at 

 the beginning of winter a considerable percentage had been destroyed. 

 But as an immense number of eggs have doubtless been deposited, 

 even should only a small proportion hatch, the locusts would be 

 sufficiently numerous to stock the infested regions to an extent equal 

 to, or greater than that of last year. The percentage escaping will 

 probably depend somewhat upon the weather during the present 

 spring and early summer. We do know, however, the situations in 

 which the eggs have been deposited, and consequently the places 

 where the young locusts will first appear; viz., upland pastures and 

 meadows, and along roadsides and hedges, but probably never to any 

 practical extent in fields cultivated the previous season, and then 

 planted to corn, oats, and similar crops ; unless perhaps there should 

 have been a growth of young grass or clover to attract the egg-laden 

 females late in autumn. Hence if a careful watch for the hatching 

 of the young locusts is kept on these situations, and remedial meas- 

 ures, such as the use of the flat kerosene pans, rolling, etc., be at 

 once applied, the insects may be destroyed at comparatively little 

 expense before they migrate to the neighboring cropped fields. 



