APPENDIX XXII. NOTES FROM MINNESOTA. [231] 



1875.— Hatclied in the comities of Lyon^ (?),Palo Alto,Plymoutb,2 Wright (a few in 

 -west half), Guthrie, Cass(?), Mills,'^ aud Fremont.^ 



Ib76. — Hatched iu the counties of Lyou (0 (few), Osceola,^ Plymouth,^ Wright (a 

 few in west lialf ) (?), Crawford, Audubon/ Cass/ Mills, Montgomery, Fremont^ (?), Page, 

 and Taylor (in west half). 



1877. — Countiesof Lyon, 'Osceola, 1 Dickinson, Emmctt,- Kossuth, Winnebago, Worth,^ 

 Sioux,' O'Brien (?), Clay, Palo Alto (no damage), Hancock, Plyniourh, Buena Vista, Po- 

 cahoutas,2 Humboldt, Wright (in west half), Woodbury,' Ida,' Lac, Calhoun,' Websier, 

 Hamilton, Monona, Crawford,- Carroll,' Greene, Boone, Story (in northwest corner), 

 Harrison, Guthrie, Dallas (in northwest corner), Pottawattamie, Cass,'^ Adair/ Madison 

 (in northwest quarter), Mills, Montgomery ,2 Adams/ and Page.- 



MUchell Couniy. — None hatched here. 



Cerro Gordo County. — None ever hatched here. Eggs were deposited in 1876, but did 

 not hatch. 



Floifd County. — Never troubled. 



Brewer County. — Some people thought they saw them flying over Waverly in 1877. 



Hamilton County. — None between 18(58 and 1876. 



Hardin County. — None ever hatched here; never troubled. But I picked them up 

 last September at Ackley, iu the northeast corner of the couutj^ (some, then, evidently 

 alighted), and a farmer passing toll me that they were thicker out in the fields than 

 they were in the spring. 



Grundy County. — None ever hatched here, but flew over Grundy Center in 1877. 



Black Hawk County. — Some x^eople thought they flew over Waterloo in 1877. 



Greene County.— Have been with us more or less since 1867. In some years but few, 

 however. 



Story County. — Never hatched nntil 1877, in northwest corner. Professor Bessey 

 says they were at Ames in 1867, 1874, 1«75, 1876, and 1877 ; in 1873 and 1874 a few speci- 

 mens, considerably more in 1875, while in 1876 they were abundant. Hatched in 1877, 

 but did not amount to much. 



Marshall County. — Flew over Marshalltown in 1877. 



Tama County. — Flew over Toledo in 1877. 



Benton County. — Some thought they flew over Yinton in 1877. 



Jasper County. — None came here. 



Poweshiek County.— Flew southwest over Montezuma in 1877. 



Warren County, — Came in 1867, and a few have been hoi^ping about ever since ; no 

 damage since 1867 and 1868. 



Marion County. — None. 



Clark County. — None. 



Lucas County. — Have never had them ; have resided here since 1857, and think I 

 should have known it if they had ever done injury here. 



Monroe County. — Have never had them. 



liinggold County. — In 18C7, 1868. None have hatched since 1873. 



Decaiur and Wayne Counties. — None hatched here since 1873. 



I thought at first that 1868-69 must bo a slip of memory for 1867-'68, but my re- 

 ports from Woodbury and Pottawattamie Counties are very carefully written, evidently, 

 and are probably correct ; that from Crawford County is very brief, but may be correct 

 also. 



I was considerably surprised to find that there was so much hatching in Iowa in 

 1876, but I think the reports are correct, because the writers go on to speak of the 

 occurrences of 1877 ; and in several cases these eggs appear to have been laid by swarms 

 moving up from the south in June. But the statements are generally so brief that it is 

 hard to say exactly Mhat is meant, and I do not know how good authority the writers 

 have. 



N. B. — It seems to me that considerable work was left undone la^t summer in the 

 way of collecting facts. So far as I am concerned, I am sorry that I didn't have my 

 work mapped out better, but that was my fault. 



In regard to 1877, what Pi'ofessor Bessey says about damnge to crops is confirmed 

 from almost every county. Out of the whole list there are only two or three that 

 admit serious injury, while most of them report that the young largely failed to hatch, 

 or where they were numerous failed to prove as destructive as formerly. 



I am sorry I did not have all this to send to you a month ago, but some of it has just 

 come in. I have written to some counties three times, first to county auditors, then 

 to clerks of courts, and lastly to postmasters, and in this way have got some kind of 

 a reply from almost every county. — [Allen Whitman. 



Saint Cloud. — I have seen and conversed with many of the old residents of Stearns 

 County — Americans, Irish, Scotch, English, and Germans — and as I speak the German 

 sufiiciently to hold convereation in that language, I have used it with the last nation- 

 ality, so that there should be no mistake in their understanding me, and they are nearly 



iln very great numbers. *In very small numbers. 



