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coveriDgs) are all left (from one cocoon) on a spot of earth not larger than a fifty-cent 

 piece, and look like diminutive mushrooms, so neatly are they folded back and ar- 

 ran«red by the .\oung locusts as they disrobe themselves.— [D. L. B. Coe, June 14, 1877. 



Clear Lalce, JSherhiirne Count}/. — Early crops stand the best f-how -svith the 'hoppers, 

 for the reason that the early crops get a start and get tough before the 'hoppers are 

 large enough to eat much. I notice that those that planted early, their crops are not 

 being damaged near as much as those that planted late. It is not best to work the 

 crops so long as the 'hoppers are in them. I have twenty-four acres of corn. The land 

 on which it was planted was very weedy last year. I planted my corn the 15th of 

 May, and now there is not a weed to be seen on the whole piece. The corn has not 

 been eaten but very little, but the weeds have been eaten as fast as they came out of 

 the ground. I have information from those that were here twenty years ago that those 

 that worked their crops lost them, and those who did not saved them. — [Daniel Frye, 

 June II, 1877. 



Mankato, Blue Earlh Couniy. — One remarkable fact is observable : that the 'hoppers 

 frequent the woods, and are generally found quite thick in timber. Never observed 

 this before. In cases, have left grain-fields and taken to the timber. — [Jo^in C. Wise 

 June 6, 1877. 



