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destructive agent, except where land can be overflowed for two or 

 three days at the time when the bulk of the young are hatching. 



Fifth — Plowing under of the eggs will be effectual in destroying 

 them, just in proportion as the ground is afterward harrowed and 

 rolled. Its eflfects will also necessarily vary with the nature of the 

 soil. Other things being equal. Fall plowing will have the advantage 

 over Spring plowing, not only in retarding the hatching period, but in 

 permitting the settling and compacting of the soil; while where the 

 ground is alterwards harrowed and rolled, the Spring plowing will 

 prove just as good, and on light soils, perhaps better, 



THE OMAHA CONFERENCE. 



At the invitation of Governor Jno. S. Pillsbury, of Minnesota, a 

 conference of the Executives of those States and Territories which 

 most sufi'er from locust ravages, and of scientific gentlemen interested 

 in the subject, was held at Omaha, Neb., on the 25th and 26th of Octo- 

 ber last. The following gentlemen were in attendance : 



Prof. Cyrus Thomas, of Illinois. 



Gov. Samuel J. Kirkwood, of Iowa, 



Gov. Thomas A. Osborne, of Kansas. 



Gov. Silas Garber, 



Ex-Gov. Robt. W. Fuinas, 



Prof. C. D. Wilber, 



Prof. A. D. Williams, and 



Hon. Geo. W. Frost, of Nebraska. 



Gov. John S. Pillsbury, 



Pennock Pusey, and 



Prof. A. Whitman, of Minnesota. 



Gov. John L. Pennington, of Dakota, and 



Gov. C. H. Hardin, and 



C. V. Riley, of Missouri. 



After an interesting and instructive interchange of opinions and 

 experiences, the following resolutions, reported by the writer on 

 behalf of a committee appointed to express the sense of the Confer- 

 ence, were unanimously adopted : 



Your Committee, appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the views of the 

 Conference, would respectfully report as follows: 



The llocky Mountain Locust, or "grasshopper," by its migrations from Territory 

 to Territory and from State to State, destroying millions of dollars' worth of the hard 

 earnings of the Western farmers, crippling the progress of the border States, and 

 retarding the settlement of the Territories, has become a national plague. Its injuries 

 are of such magnitude that no effort should be left untried that will be likely to diminisli 

 or avert them. 



The work to be done is of a two-fold nature— State and National. From the 

 writings of those wlio have given the subject careful attention, and from our own past 

 experience, it is quite manifest that the pest in question is not a native of the country 



