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country west of Headingly escaped, and generally the wheat 

 was not much injured, but they played sad havoc with the 

 gardens. Nothing was sown the following spring throughout 

 the infested district, but throughout the western settlements 

 a large crop was grown and saved.' From the same source 

 we have obtained the following particulars respecting the 

 ravages of the locust in different parts of the province : — 



^ The South. — From West Lynn (Pembina) northward, as 

 far as Scratching River, the oats and barley have been 

 entirely destroyed, and the wheat partially. 



^Palestine. — The latest reports from this settlement confirm 

 the accounts that the settlement is laid waste. 



'Manitoba Lake. — The shores of this lake are strewn three 

 feet in many places with dead grasshoppers, the wind having 

 driven them into the lake, where they were drowned and cast 

 ashore. 



'The Boyne Settlement. — They are very thick here, and 

 have completely destroyed the oats and barley, and about 

 half ruined the wheat. 



'Portage la Prairie. — From Polar Point to the Portage 

 the fields are swarming with grasshoppers, which have 

 devoured the crops. Scarcely anything has escaped. 



'Rat Creek. — In this neighbourhood it is reported that the 

 crops of Kenneth McKenzie, Hugh Grant, and others, are 

 being destroyed, and that the former had commenced cutting 

 his oats and barley for fodder rather than let the pests 

 take all. 



'Rockwood. — The crops in this settlement have suffered 

 severely : oats and barley completely destroyed, and wheat 

 badly injured. 



' Woodland. — -Most of the settlers in this neighbourhood 

 are entirely cleaned out. 



* County of Provencher. — All the crops along the Red 

 River, from Pembina to Stinking River, have been eaten up, 

 excepting, in some instances, a portion of the wheat and 

 potatoes have escaped. 



' Winnipeg. — The gardens in this city and the oats and 

 barley in the neighbourhood are being destroyed. During 

 the evenings, at the going down of the sun, they seek the 

 board-fences and sides of houses in such numbers that in 

 many cases it is impossible to distinguish the colour of the 

 liouses, or the material of which they are built.' 



