APFEl^DIX III 



TEXAS DATA FOE 1877. 



REPORT OF JACOB BOLL, SPECIAL ASSISTANT, DALLAS, TEXAS. 



Taylor, Williamson County, Texas. 



May 18, 1877. 

 Conntry not well settled. I could not detect any damage caused by locusts. Prairie 

 land was in excellent condition and covered with flowers. 



Round Rock, same county, well settled. Damage not important, and limited to gar- 

 dens. The majority of locusts were already gone, and only a few remained. The larvaa 

 traveled in the direction of the northwest. Ten years ago the same place was visited 

 by locusts. 



Limestone County^ 



May 19, 1877. 

 This county, consisting only of prairie, was damaged to a considerable extent. Seven- 

 eighths of t be first corn crop gone. In spring all the cultivated land was invaded 

 by locusts from the southern side. With the exception of the cotton-boll worm, which 

 caused some damage three years ago, the fields have not suffered at all for six years 

 past. 



May 21, 1877. 



During the passage from Houston to San Antonio the crop was everywhere in good 

 condition ; no damage by locusts could be observed, whether on sugar-cane, com, or 

 cotton. I saw no wheat cultivated on the road. 



Sayi Antonio, Bexar County. 



May 22, 1877. 

 The x^roprietor of a farm of twelve hundred acres, six miles south of San Antonio, in- 

 forms me that his first crop of corn was partially destroyed. The locusts laid their 

 eggs in the fall on uncultivated ground outside the farm. The young invaded the 

 farm this spring from the southeast, but they only traveled by certain lines in masses 

 in a northwest direction. The greater part of the damage was limited to the garden. 



May 28, 1877. 



Surrounding country not very much cultivated ; the valley can be irrigated. Martin 

 Eugelmau, a farmer and nurseryman, living one mile northeast from the city for 

 twenty-six years, stated that the locusts laid eggs on the outside of his farm in dry, 

 firm, black soil ; when hatched they crossed the water-ditch, entered the farm from 

 the southeast, and took the direction to northwest, in which direction the winged 

 started about four wrecks ago. In uncultivated land fewer locusts were observed. 

 They destroyed all the vegetables, the vines, peach-trees, &c., and left the corn un- 

 touched in the wesern part of his farm. The damage was more limited to his garden. 

 A week after they left his place all was green again, and I observed the vines fall of 

 large grapes and the peach-trees full of fruit. Some of the latter were killed. The 

 vegetables in the garden were in such a condition that no damage could have been 

 detected. 



In general, the damage around San Antonio was more in gardens ; on the southeast 

 side of the city the gardens were not touched at all, and in some places on the river, 

 where the blue-grass from Kentucky has been cultivated, the locusts preferred it 

 especially. All informants agree that they appear every eighth or tenth year. 



New JBi-aunfels, Comal County. 



June 6, 1877. 

 Mr. Kessler, a farmer, who has over 1,000 acres in cultivation two miles south, says the 

 eggs were laid in hard prairie land and in sand, rather than in black soil. Direction of 

 the travel of the larvie, north northwest. On the right side of the Guadalupe River, 

 running southeast, they were more numerous than on the left side. In afield which is 

 crossed from south to north by a fence, the locusts moved along on both sides of the 

 fence, destroying the corn for a distance of 20 feet. The remaining part of the field 



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