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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.—¥rom 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 
houses, or the material of which they are built.’ 
