INSECTS INJURIOUS IN 1902. 19 
spring. On the farm of Eli Benoit wheat next the stubble as 
well as beans, barley and young flax were eaten. 
It was however in the Hill River district near Lindsay P. O. 
that farmers suffered the most. Here a tract extending one-half 
mile east and west and two miles north and south was almost swept 
of vegetation. Young flax, grass, wheat, barley and oats were 
mowed down and at the date of my visit, June 26th, the farmers 
Fig. 12.—View of flax field near Gentilly, one-third of which has been eaten by 
grasshoppers. 
were complaining bitterly of a 300 acre piece of stubble which had 
been allowed to lie fallow for two years or more and was very 
evidently the breeding ground of the pest. In places I found the 
ground brown with young hoppers not yet ready to fly, and the 
area referred to presented a scene of desolation not easily forgot- 
ten. These young hoppers were working south and on each suc- 
ceeding visit I found their limit to be further south. 
Farmers in this neighborhood worked heroically in the fight 
against the unwelcome visitation and about 800 gallons of oil was 
distributed by the Entomologist through the county commisson- 
ers. This oil was judiciously used, but the numbers of the insects 
