﻿PACKARD.] 
  THE 
  EASTERN 
  RED-LEGGED 
  LOCUST. 
  687 
  

  

  to 
  the 
  sun, 
  to 
  watch 
  the 
  thistle-blows 
  as 
  they 
  passed 
  across 
  or 
  near 
  its 
  

   disk. 
  I 
  think 
  I 
  could 
  have 
  seen 
  them 
  in 
  this 
  situation 
  several 
  hundred 
  

   feet 
  high. 
  I 
  injured 
  my 
  eyes 
  permanently 
  by 
  indulging 
  in 
  this 
  amuse- 
  

   ment. 
  Whether 
  the 
  grasshoppers 
  ever 
  rose 
  to 
  so 
  great 
  a 
  height 
  I 
  do 
  

   not 
  know, 
  but 
  I 
  think 
  that 
  they 
  generally 
  flew 
  at 
  a 
  lower 
  level. 
  Alto- 
  

   gether 
  they 
  would 
  rise 
  in 
  clouds 
  as 
  one 
  approached 
  them 
  ; 
  it 
  was 
  only 
  

   an 
  occasional 
  one 
  that 
  would 
  rise 
  higher, 
  and 
  fly 
  off 
  before 
  the 
  wind, 
  

   and 
  then 
  only 
  when 
  the 
  wind 
  was 
  blowing 
  freshly. 
  They 
  did 
  not 
  fly 
  

   with 
  their 
  heads 
  directly 
  before 
  the 
  wind, 
  but 
  seemed 
  to 
  rise 
  in 
  the 
  air, 
  

   set 
  their 
  wings 
  in 
  motion, 
  and 
  suffer 
  themselves 
  to 
  be 
  borne 
  along 
  by 
  

   the 
  current. 
  They 
  generally, 
  perhaps 
  always, 
  rose 
  in 
  the 
  afternoon, 
  

   when 
  the 
  sun 
  was 
  hot 
  and 
  the 
  wind 
  blowing 
  freshly." 
  — 
  (From 
  accounts 
  

   furnished 
  by 
  Dr. 
  N. 
  T. 
  True, 
  Bethel, 
  Me., 
  February 
  28 
  and 
  March 
  10, 
  

   18G8.) 
  

  

  In 
  Ohio 
  and 
  Pennsylvania, 
  according 
  to 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  S. 
  Taylor, 
  the 
  grass- 
  

   hoppers 
  made 
  their 
  appearance 
  in 
  vast 
  numbers. 
  In 
  1859 
  Mr. 
  Schenck, 
  

   of 
  Franklin, 
  Warren 
  County, 
  Ohio, 
  wrote 
  to 
  the 
  Ohia 
  Farmer: 
  "Last 
  

   year 
  we 
  had 
  millions 
  of 
  them 
  ; 
  this 
  year 
  we 
  have 
  hundreds 
  of 
  millions." 
  

   For 
  five 
  years, 
  he 
  says, 
  they 
  have 
  been 
  increasing 
  on 
  his 
  farm, 
  and 
  he 
  

   tears 
  that 
  unless 
  some 
  means 
  are 
  discovered 
  for 
  their 
  destruction 
  they 
  

   will 
  totally 
  ruin 
  his 
  own 
  and 
  his 
  neighbors' 
  clover-fields. 
  The 
  speed 
  

   of 
  the 
  Central 
  Eailroad 
  locomotives 
  is 
  considerably 
  decreased 
  by 
  the 
  

   immense 
  swarms 
  of 
  grasshoppers 
  between 
  Lancaster 
  and 
  Philadelphia. 
  

   One 
  engineer 
  stated 
  that 
  his 
  train 
  was 
  forty 
  minutes 
  behind 
  owing 
  to 
  

   the 
  number 
  of 
  grasshoppers 
  on 
  the 
  track, 
  and 
  that 
  he 
  used 
  twenty 
  

   buckets 
  of 
  sand, 
  which 
  was 
  thrown 
  on 
  the 
  rail 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  the 
  driving- 
  

   wheels, 
  to 
  enable 
  him 
  to 
  get 
  along 
  at 
  all. 
  Improbable 
  as 
  this 
  story 
  may 
  

   appear, 
  its 
  truth 
  is 
  vouched 
  for 
  by 
  the 
  engineer 
  above 
  alluded 
  to. 
  (Hay- 
  

   den's 
  Eeport 
  on 
  ISTebraska, 
  1872.) 
  In 
  1808, 
  locusts, 
  principally 
  the 
  red- 
  

   legged 
  species, 
  appeared, 
  according 
  to 
  Eiley, 
  in 
  countless 
  myriads 
  in 
  

   ObiOj 
  invading 
  the 
  vineyards, 
  "destroying 
  entire 
  rows, 
  defoliating 
  the 
  

   vines, 
  and 
  sucking 
  out 
  the 
  juices 
  of 
  the 
  berries. 
  In 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  I 
  

   saw 
  them 
  in 
  countless 
  millions 
  in 
  many 
  parts 
  6f 
  Illinois 
  and 
  Missouri. 
  

   They 
  actually 
  stripped 
  many 
  corn-fields 
  in 
  these 
  States, 
  and 
  had 
  not 
  the 
  

   crops 
  been 
  unusually 
  abundant, 
  would 
  have 
  caused 
  some 
  suffering. 
  

   They 
  were 
  very 
  destructive 
  to 
  flower 
  and 
  vegetable 
  gardens. 
  In 
  1869 
  

   they 
  were, 
  if 
  anything, 
  worse 
  than 
  in 
  1868. 
  I 
  remember 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  

   vicinity 
  of 
  Saint 
  Louis, 
  in 
  addition 
  to 
  their 
  ordinary 
  injuries, 
  they 
  

   stripped 
  the 
  toi^s 
  of 
  jSTorway 
  spruce, 
  balsam-fir, 
  and 
  Euroj)ean 
  larch 
  ; 
  

   took 
  the 
  blossoms 
  off 
  Lima 
  beans, 
  severed 
  grape-stems, 
  and 
  ate 
  numer- 
  

   ous 
  holes 
  into 
  apples 
  and 
  peaches, 
  thereby 
  causing 
  them 
  to 
  rot. 
  They 
  

   "were 
  indeed 
  abundant 
  all 
  over 
  Illinois, 
  Missouri, 
  Iowa, 
  and 
  even 
  Ken- 
  

   tucky, 
  but 
  attracted 
  no 
  attention 
  east." 
  — 
  (Eiley's 
  Seventh 
  Eeport.) 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  year 
  1871, 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  which 
  was 
  dry, 
  w^hile 
  I 
  was 
  in 
  Orono, 
  

   Me., 
  in 
  July 
  reports 
  came 
  from 
  Aroostook 
  County 
  that 
  the 
  hay-crop 
  

   was 
  being 
  devoured 
  by 
  the 
  locusts 
  ; 
  and 
  in 
  August 
  the 
  evil 
  became 
  still 
  

   worse, 
  and 
  they 
  attacked 
  the 
  other 
  crops, 
  and 
  became 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  de- 
  

   structive 
  all 
  over 
  the 
  State. 
  They 
  also, 
  as 
  quoted 
  by 
  Eiley 
  from 
  

   the 
  Monthly 
  Eeport 
  of 
  the 
  Agricultural 
  Department, 
  abounded 
  in 
  Ply- 
  

   mouth 
  County, 
  Massachusetts, 
  and 
  in 
  Vermont, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  in 
  Wayne 
  

   County, 
  Pennsylvania. 
  In 
  1872, 
  they 
  were 
  very 
  abundant 
  in 
  New 
  

   Hampshire, 
  and 
  in 
  1874 
  they 
  were 
  destructive 
  in 
  Missouri. 
  In 
  1875 
  they 
  

   were 
  very 
  abuudant 
  in 
  the 
  salt-marshes 
  of 
  Essex, 
  Mass., 
  as 
  I 
  was 
  in- 
  

   formed 
  by 
  a 
  summer-resident 
  there. 
  

  

  In 
  1876, 
  in 
  the 
  Monthly 
  Eeport 
  of 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  Agriculture 
  for 
  

   ■July, 
  it 
  was 
  noted 
  as 
  injurious 
  "in 
  Sullivan, 
  X. 
  H. 
  In 
  Franklin, 
  Va., 
  

  

  