22 INSECTS INJURIOUS IN 1902. 
July on the stubble. Unfortunately a heavy storm prevented an 
examination for the eggs. One of the farmers whose loss perhaps 
represents an average in this district, told me that he had lost 
about one-third of his wheat crop, nearly one-half his oats and 
fully one-half his barley through the ravages of Grasshoppers. 
Serious as this loss is, it must be admitted that the outlook in the 
earlier part of the season was much more threatening; in other 
words, the farmers in this district really got larger crops than 
they had anticipated. 
All Locusts, while they vary as to date of egg laying exhibit 

Fig. 15.—Dissosteira carolina, female. Lugger. 
practically the same method, well shown in Fig. 58. It will be seen 
that the eggs are laid in a pocket in the surface inch of soil. The 
young hopper upon hatching invariably works upward. The 
significance of this fact in connecton with plowing is at once ap- 
parent, for the plow turns the bottom of the case up, thus afford- 
ing no exit for the young hopper. Many of our people mistake 
the large Locust, notably the Carolina Locust, Dissosteira carolina, 
Linn., for the destructive Rocky Mountain variety. A comparison 
of the accompanyng illustration (Fig. 15) with the excellent 
colored plate, (Fig. 7) will show the difference between these 
two. It is well, however, to bear in mind that all hoppers are 
