APPENDIX Vin. NEBRASKA DATA FOR 1877. [l^l] 



In 1874 they came from northwest June 27 to August 6 ; then traveled northwest 

 to October 3, but did no damage in this locality. 



In 1875, May 20, latitude 42, longitude 103 ; saw a large swarm going north 30° 

 west ; June 6, at Camp Sheridan, saw them every day until 10th go northwest ; June 

 21, latitude 41° 30' north, longitude 101° west, saw them go southeast; continued to 

 go southeast each day when the wind was favorable until August 5, when they began 

 to go southwest, and continued until October 1. This is the first season that they 

 have done much damage here. They took all the crops. They lodged against the 

 snowy range of the Rocky Mountains in immense numbers and perished in the snow ; 

 a friend of mine says they were six inches deep on the snow. 



1876, June 20, flew southeast to July 25, then drifted every way the balance of the 

 season ; did but little damage west of longitude 100° 30'. Laid their eggs south of 

 latitude 41° from Colorado, at least east to 100 meridian; none north of this line. — 

 [J. W. La Munyon, June 1, 1877. 



Chapman, Merrick County. — Our section was most severely visited in 1876. Was 

 visited in 1873, about the 15th May ; did considerable damage to wheat, the only crop we 

 had at that date ; staid about 48 hours ; weather cool and damp while they stopped ; 

 traveled from southwest to northeast. Was visited again in 1874, in wheat harvest, 

 probably July 15 ; came from northwest, stopped about ten days, and left for south- 

 west. Again in 1875, when com was waist-high, probably June 25, but not so many as 

 in 1874 ; they came from the south ; stopped from three to five days, and left to the 

 north, returning again from the northwest aboujb the 20th of August, injuring the 

 corn bad and destroying late corn entirely, and left in a few days without depositing 

 any eggs. There were no eggs deposited in any of the above visitations (I speak only 

 of Merrick County). They always travel with the wind, that is, the same direction. 

 On nearly a calm day they travel as fast as the wind, but when the wind is strong 

 they right about face, letting the wind carry them, but do not travel as fast as the 

 wind. They always stop when the wind changes. — [H. M. Cox, May 18, 1877. 



Albion, Boone County. — Since the settlement of Boone County there has never been 

 any deposit of grasshopper eggs in the county. We have had considerable experience 

 with grasshoppers during the migrating season in previous years. We have been vis- 

 ited by the flying locusts four out of the last five years. In 1874 they were flying in 

 a southerly direction ; the next year (1875) they were flying in the opposite direction, 

 toward the north ; in 1876 it was again reversed and they returned south. 



My observations of their movements and habits in the years I have named have led 

 me to the following conclusions : 



First. That they fly north and south (or nearly in that direction) in alternate years, 

 over this section of country. 



Second. That there is no particular time of day in which they alight or rise, depend- 

 ing entirely and absolutely on the course of the wind, either favorable or unfavorable 

 for the course which they are moving. I have seen fields literally covered with 

 them in almost all kinds of weather, clear, cloudy, and rainy. I have seen them flying 

 very thick just before a heavy shower and immediately after it, and yet did not come 

 down, which has suggested the idea that they may rise above the rain during that time ; 

 if not, they must certainly fly through it. 



In 1874 and 1876 they were moving from north to south, destroying our crops each 

 year in consequence of the almost continued south wind detaining them, sometimes a 

 week at a time. In 1875 they were fully as numerous and commenced their ravages 

 fully as often as in either of the other years mentioned, yet the wind being favorable 

 nearly all the time for flight in the direction they were going, their stay was very 

 short at all times during the season. I have never known them to alight while a fav- 

 orable wind was blowing, neither have I ever known them to remain an hour after a 

 favorable wind commenced blowing.— [Loran Clark, May 17, 1877. 



Ogalalla, Keith County. — Swarms were observed passing northward over this place 

 26th, 27th, and 28th of May ; they were flying high. Large swarms have never stopped 

 long in this section. No farming here.— [W. P. P. St. Clair, June 13, 1877. 



Genoa, Platte County. — Movements of the locusts for the past month have been as 

 follows : From 5th to 13th, the flight was to the north ; from 21st to 25th, in the same 

 direction ; on the 29th commenced going south and descended in considerable num- 

 bers, but on 30th went north ; on the 31st they again went south and southwest. — 

 [George S. Truman, August 1, "1877. 



PoNCA, DrxoN County.— August 9, 1872, the 'hoppers (a small flight) came down 

 upon us, remaining about 3| days, doing very little damage. 



May 28, 1873, about noon, we were visited by any amount of Mormoli gras^oppers. 

 They went to work immediately depositing their eggs, doing but little damage to 

 ve'getation. June 5, 'hoppers about all left to-day. On July 17, 1874, was our ter- 

 rible suflering. Legions came upon us, destroying our entire crop of corn, potatoes, 

 cabbages, and all gardens, without exception. Everything they could light on was 

 covered ; sheds, trees, and the earth could not be seen for them. On July 21 they 

 left. August 6, 1876, millions of 'hoppers lit down upon us.— [James Rockwell. 



