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Viclshurg, Renville County. — They are not governed by the wind, but travel toward 

 the fields. — [Mrs. Rich. 



Worthington, Nobles County. — West and south. 



Otio, Pope County. — In all directions. — [Hoffman. 



Alexandria, Douglas County. — In any direction, in quest of food. — [Aaker. 



La Verne, Bock County. — Southeasterly direction. I am inclined to believe that they 

 do not make a continuous march, but march a few days, then have a season of rest 

 and feeding. I have discovered that they shed their coat or outer covering, I should 

 think, at about four weeks old, and diiriug the time of shedding, and for a few days 

 after, they are quite stupid; so much so, that they can be easily caught with the hand. 

 Inclosed I send you some of their skins. Also, at the time of taking wings, they shed 

 their coat again. Before shedding, there are to be seen on their shoulders elevations 

 resembling black buttons, in which the wings are folded, and immediately after shed- 

 ding unfold and take their natural shape ; and in three days they are ready to fly. 

 Immediately after shedding they are very stupid — can neither fly nor jump — and ap- 

 pear quite soft and clumsy. When they take their wings I will send some specimens 

 if you wish.— [H. Brockway. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Ottawa, Kansas. — ^Northwest. — [A. Willis. 



AtcMs n, Kansas. — In the direction where there was something good for them to 

 eat. — [E. Snyder. 



Tonganoxie, Leavenworth County, Kansas. — Young locusts traveled backward, for- 

 ward, and criss-cross. — [H. Y. Needham. 



Tabor, Clay County, Kansas. — Insects seem to search for protected places. — [I. W. 

 Eagby. 



Calvert, Bobertson County, Texas. — They traveled in shoals, in all directions. For five 

 miles' travel you could meet them going to various points of the compass the same 

 day.— [D. Parker.] Alternately, north and south, or northeast and southwest. They 

 seemed to march in swarms, and in portions of the country went to all points of the 

 compass. — [W. L. Coleman. 



Austin, Travis County, Texas. — The young grasshoppers commenced to travel early 

 in the season, and went in a northwest course generally. Some days they would go 

 north. They commenced to travel as soon as they could hop about in the fields. In 

 the timber or brush they remained some longer ; did not travel so fast. I think the 

 cause of it was, they were not disturbed as they were in the fields. There were no 

 means of any kind used in this section to protect crops from the young locust. — [John 

 Secrist. 



Diamond City, Jasper County, Missouri. — South-southwest from ten in the forenoon 

 till sundown, after which they began to feed. The unfledged locusts would be all over 

 a field one day, and the next would be gone, and no one could tell where or when they 

 went. — [Wm. G. L. Craig. 



Smiil field, Cache County, Utah. — The young insect generally travels south and west, 

 unless headed by streams or insurmountable obstacles, such as barren or marshy 

 lands.— [James S. Cant well, P. M. 



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