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[Vol. IV. 



Saledanda, Pondi, Thonda, Surajpur of 

 Tircle No. 24; Babeha, Jujhari, Bacheragondi, 

 Bakori, Umaria, Kosumdongri of Circle 

 No. 32 ; Tikrakhespaui, Kanadongri, Kheri 

 of Circle No. 18 ; Sudgaon of 55 ; Saliwara, 

 Mohgaon of 56 ; Kumharra, Silghuli Cheola- 

 tola of Circle No. 57 5 Khonda Khudra, 

 Goriapondi and Chalin, Circle No. 60. 



Circle No. il), and then entered the Seoni district at the Kedarpur pargana 

 It appeared again on the 20th October in Circle No. 24 and passed through the 



marginallv noted villages causing varying 

 damage in its flight. It then 'passed over 

 the hills on the boundary between the two 

 tahsils and bore southward, returning into 

 the Mandla tahsil in Patwari Circle No. 71 

 and caused some damage in the villages of 

 Kanhari, Guara, Kewa, etc., of Circle No. 50 

 in the Dindori tahsil. It then travelled 

 over;the jungles to the South of Bajag and was next met with in Kbamor 

 Khudru, Sohajno, Chakmi, Gopalpur and Majhgaon in the very South of the 

 Dindori tahsil. On about the 26th October the flight passed away over the hills 

 in the direction of Amarkantak. 



" The principal damage was caused to the Kcdon Kutki, and Sarson crops 

 but the ]uar crop was also damaged to some extent as the heads were in flower 

 at the time. The area damaged in any single village does not exceed 50 acres 

 except in the five villages of Kirhopiparia, Karhopiparia ryotwari in Circle No. 10, 

 Thonda and Pondi in Circle No. 24., and Khondra Khudra in Circle No. 60, all in 

 the Mandla tahsil. 



" With regard to these five villages the necessary enquiries under Revenue 

 Book Circular 1-9 (Vol. II), are being made. 



«'A second flight appeared on 23rd November 1897 from the direction of 

 Seoni. It passed through Circle Nos. 15 and 16 of the Mandla tahsil, and entered 

 the Dindori tahsil near Peparin and Mewas and then passed northward into 

 the Jubbulpur district. This flight caused very little damage, except in some 

 places, to the wheat seedlings. 



" A third flight is reported to have appeared at Dindori on the 28th of 

 November and to have gone southward towards Bajag, but it does not appear to 

 have caused serious damage at any place in its course." 



(6) Through the Officiating Commissioner of Settlement and 

 Agriculture, Central Provinces, Nagpur, from the Deputy Commis- 

 sioner, Hoshangabad — 



" The first flight of locusts crossed the North-East corner of the Sohagpur 

 tahsil on the gth October and did comparatively little damage, the village most 

 affected was Ajera, where 60 acres of tilli, kutki, urad and mung were slightly 

 injured. 



" On the 23rd, 24th, 25th, 28th, 2gth, 30th and 31st further flights entered 

 this tahsil from Bhopal, some portion of them spending the night in different 

 villages. All these flights appear to have come from a large flight in the Bhopal 

 State across the Narbada, a flight which was still in evidence as late as the 

 15th December. 



" In n^ost cases very little damage was done during the day time, the locusts 

 on'y staying a short time and moving on then to other fields. 



'• In the villages where the locusts rested at night the damage is more 

 strious. Their numbers were so great that branches of trees were broken by 

 their weight, and the only reason why the crops did not suffer more than they 

 did was, that much of the jawari was too young to be seriously damaged. Any 



