APPENDIX XXIII. — CONSECUTIVE EGG-LAYING. [237] 



Sidney, Fremont County. — Never knew the same ground witb any eggs two consecu- 

 tive years. — [G. V. Swearingen. 



Sioux County. — No ; I have not. 



Sioux City, fVoodbury County. — I have observed the grasshoppers in this locality ever 

 since 1857, and have never known it to be the case. — [Wm. K. Smith. 



Tahur, Fremont County. — No. — [J. T. Sanborn. 



Sjnrit Lake, DicMnson County. — In this county they did not lay their eggs any two 

 years in succession, but I am informed they did in part of Jackson, Nobles, Rock, Cot- 

 tonwood, and some other counties in Minnesota. Some residents of this town inform 

 me that they deposited eggs in the above-named counties in 1873, 1874, 1875, and 1876; 

 others say 1874, 1875, and 1876, and others 1875 and 1876. I am inclined to think that 

 1874, 1875, and 1876 is correct.— [Emmet T. Hill. 



Webster City, Keokuk County. — So far as my observation extend?, the 'hoppers have 

 not deposited their eggs here during any two consecutive seasons. — [C. Aldrich. 



West Liberty, Muscatine County. — No. — [E. H. King. 



Onaiva, Monona County. — Yes ; I have. In 1867, the deposit of eggs in this county was 

 universal, and the ground was literally filled with them. In 1868, the 'hoppers re- 

 turned from the north, and in some localities in this county again deposited eggs so 

 thickly that the young 'hoppers in 1869 destroyed the spring grain in some places and 

 badly injured it in other places. I desire to say that here the fall-fledged 'hoppers 

 uniformly travel north up to the middle or 20th of July, and uniformly travel south 

 after that time. — [Addison Oliver. 



Sac City, Sac County. — Have never known them to deposit eggs here two consecutive 

 years. — [Washington Allen. 



Shelby, Shelby County.— ^o.—lW. H. Brown. 



Sheldon, O'Brien County.— ^o.— [J. C. Elliot. 



Sidney, Fremont County. — Our observations extend back some twenty years, and we 

 never knew eggs to be deposited two years in succession. — [G. Y. Swearingen. 



KANSAS. 



Atchison, Atchison County. — Personally I have not. I think the eggs of this insect 

 have never been laid to any extent the year following the first hatching among us in 

 any part of our State, at least in the inhabited parts. — [H. P. Stebbins.] In 1866 and 

 1867 eggs were deposited in great abundance in the same localities ; but the last crop 

 did not hatch out very good, and were not verv destructive when they did hatch. — 

 [C. W. Johnson. 



Belleville, Republic County. — No ; I have not.— r[ J. P. Heaton. 



Burlington, Coffey County.— K few in 1867 and 1868.— [B. L. Kingsbury. 



Chanute, Xeosho County. — No. 



Cherryvale, Montgomery County. — I don't think they ever laid eggs two years in suc- 

 cession in this country. — [C. G. Brooks. 



Claytonville, Brown County. — In the past ten years we have been four times visited by 

 locusts. In the fall of 1867 they came and laid a few eggs. In August, 1868, they came 

 again in greater numbers, and laid their eggs, which hatched and did much damage in 

 1869. In August, 1874, they came again in still greater numbers, and left their eggs, 

 which hatched in 1875 and devoured almost everything. In September, 1876, they 

 came thicker thai ever before, and deposited their eggs sj closely that in many parts 

 the ground was covered ; but the wet Fall and spring destroyed the eggs, and they did 

 but little damage. I have not seen eggs in the same ground or locality for two con- 

 secutive years. — [William M. Robertson. 



Ellis, Ellis County. — Have not observed particularly; but think not. 



Eliron, McPherson County. — No. 



Farland, McPherson County. — They have never laid eggs in this county till last fall. 



Geneva, Allen County. — I have not. — [Van Deman. 



Great Bend, Barton Cownfj/.— Have never known them to deposit eggs in same locality 

 for two consecutive years in this section of the State.— [D. J. Evans, 



Hiawatha, Brown County. — Negative answer from all I have put the question to. — [E. 

 M. Pratt. 



Industry, DicMnson County. — No; nor has any one about here. — [G. J. Smart. 



Tola, Allen County. — I have not. — [H. T. Rice. 



Irving, Marshall County. — Several old settlers here tell me that in both the Fall of 

 1866 and 1867 grasshopper-eggs were thickly deposited in some localities in this dis- 

 trict, but the latter year they soon disappeared, after hatching in the spring, doing but 

 little harm.- [B. P. Ward. 



Junction City, Davis County.— "No; I have not. — [Charles S. Harris. 



Lane, Franklin County. — No. — [James Hanway. 



Lawrence, Douglas County. — No; and I have been here twelve ye^rs. — [George F. 

 Gaumer. 



Leavenworth, Leavenworth County. — I have not. They were laid here in 1867, hatched 

 out 1868, laid again in 1874, hatched out in 1875.— [J. A. Haldeman. 



