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able to decide ; but I rather incline to the former alternative. Clearly, 

 this entire Grasshopper visitation iniist have been quite local; for, 

 in the Prairie Farmer for 1865, may be found sundry "Records of 

 the Season" from sundry parts of ' Minnesota, namely, Rice Co., 

 Anoka Co., Ramsey Co., Goodhue Co., Blue Earth Co., Wabasha Co., 

 Martin Co., Elgin and St. Paul, and dated from June 19th to Octo- 

 ber 7th, 1865, which say nothing whatever on this subject. 



''St. Peter, Minnesota, July, 1865. — The Grasshoppers have been 

 flying over this place in coi.nitlcss myriads. The air, for a quarter 

 of a mile high, was filled with them, and their speed was four to five 

 miles an hour. In every town or farm through which they pass, 

 they leave a strong guard, and the destruction of crops is sure to 

 follow." — Prairie Farmer, July 22, 1865. 



Lastly, in 1857, as appears from the following extract, or one 

 year after the first Minnesota invasion, and nine years before the 

 great invasion of 1866, there was an irruption of some kind or other 

 of Grasshoppers — perhaps our Hateful species, perhaps a different one 

 — into the dominions of that High and Mighty Autocrat of a vast 

 portion of the soil of Republican America, whom the vulgar herd of 

 Geijtiles designate as Brigham Young. 



"In 1857, the Grasshoppers ate everything green in Salt Lake 

 Valley, and came near starving the Mormons out, since which time 

 old Brigham keeps one "year's supplies on hand, knowing that they 

 would not come the second year." — loica Homestead, May 8, 1867. 



Ten years afterwards, as is shown below, there was still another 

 irruption of the same insect, but apparently in greatly diminished 

 numbers, into the same territory. 



"Great Salt Lake City, Utah, about July 31, 1867. — The season 

 has been very fine for farming, but on the last day of the month the 

 Grasshoppers came by millions." — Monthly Rep. Agr. Dep., 1867, 

 p. 306. 



"Wanship, Utah, July 31, 1867. — First appearance of a cloud of 

 Grasshoppers over Wanship. They have destroyed one-half of the 

 grain in Cache Valley, and all the fruit and a great amount of the 

 grain in Davis Co. They are swarming on the lower part of Weber 

 'RiYeT."—Ibid. 



"Great Salt Lake City, Utah, about November, 1867. — In a field 

 that was being planted in the north-east portion of this City, last 

 Monday, numbers of young Grasshoppers (the size of House-flies) 

 were turned up by the plow, all alive and green, and quite recently 

 hatched."— Ibid., p. 365. 



It is by no means certain, that the insect referred to in the above 



