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and cal)baf]je. 25. Sugar-cane, broom-corn, flax, pease. 26. Not at all. 27. Hogs and all 

 birds, domestic and wild. 28. Deep plowing and harrowing in the Fall, and harrowing 

 in February. 30. Neither fly nor eat, but sit still where they are when night comes. 31. 

 Eate varies with the force of the wind. — [Thompson. ] 23. Sandy knolls with southeast 

 slopes produced a few young last fall. 29. Exclusively prairie. 30. The very young 

 get under clods or anything to keep warm ; the older prefer to ascend anything to roost. 

 Do not march or fly, but destroy where they roost. 31. Owing to force of wind. Last 

 Fall when they went from here they went at the rate of from 40 to 60 miles per hour. — 

 [Crowell. 



Lake City, CalJioun County. — 22. I do not think they ever hatch in the Fall. 25. On- 

 ions, tobacco, barley, wheat, oats, corn, full-grown same as young. 25. Prairie-grass, 

 pease, sugar-cane, and most of the weeds. 26. Very little in either case. 27. Turkeys, 

 chickens; native wild birds feed on both young and old; the red parasite destroys 

 many. 28. Plowing deep and harrowing late in the Fall and early in the spring. 29. 

 About 1 to 40. 30. They will gather on trees, fences, weeds, cornstalks, &c., to roost. 

 Do not eat nor travel at night. 31. They go with the wind. — [Jack. 



Sioux City, Woodbury County. — 26. The young 'hoxjpers appe. r to eat the young, ten- 

 der wild grass about as mucli as anything else. 31. The young 'hoppers appear to lie 

 dormant at night, congregated on fences, straw, stubble, young trees, &c. ; the old 

 ones seem to work the same. — [Skinner. 



DAKOTA. 



Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County. — 23. None hatched last fall, it being very wet. 24. 

 Corn, wheat, oats, turnips, beans, onions, foliage of fruit-trees, currants, &c. 25. 

 Sugar-cane, pease, tomatoes, and squashes. 26. Not any. 27. Blackbirds and wheat- 

 birds appear to pick up eggs. 29. All prairie. — [Clark. 



Saybrook, Clay County. — 23. None. 24. Corn, cabbage, and onions. 25. Strawberries 

 and tomatoes. 26. Never injure it the least. 27. The little red bug. 29. Not more 

 than 1 per cent. 30. Apx)ear to sit still behind the sheltery side of anything to keep 

 warm; eit still; don't eat. — [Hall. 



Madison, Lake County. — 25. Sorghum and pease ; especially sorghum. 26. Very little 

 damage done. 27. Nearly all domestic and wild birds. 31. Depends entirely upon 

 velocity of the wind.— [Law. 



Spring Valley, Turner County. -^'ZZ. None hatched here. 24. Wheat, corn. 25. Tum- 

 We-weed. 26. None at all. 27. Blackbirds and domestic fowls. 28. None. 29. No 

 timber here. — [Andrews. 



Olivet, Hutchinson County. — 29. No timber. 30. They surely fly at night during their 

 passage, as they are seen every fair day during summer on the wing, but do not light 

 at night. 31. They always go with the wind and at the rate of the wind. — [Jones. 



Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County. — 27. Hogs eat the full-grown insects. 30. Young 

 "'ionpers will go five or six rods to get into straw or high grass for the night. — [Everett. 



WiUowiourn, Armstrong County. — 23. Few only, caused by late setting in of winter. 

 24. Grain, corn, pease, and nearly all other cereal. 25. Rye, barley, and grass. 26. 

 ]^one. 27. Neatly all feathered tribes. 28. None. 29. 99 to 100 ; i. e., 99 prairie, 1 tim- 

 ber. 30. Think they lie still at night. 31. According to velocity of wind. — [Taylor. 



JVahjJeton, Richland County. — 24. Garden truck, oats, barley, wheat, jwtatoes, buck- 

 w^heat. Coats, or other clothing, saddles, leather whips, &c., left on the ground a few 

 ■hours would be ruined. 26. They do not seem to have made much impression. 27. 

 Domestic fowls. I have observed my tame crane gathering them in. 28. Plowing in 

 fall and early spring. 29. Almost entire prairie ; small clumps of timbM". 30. Neither 

 cfly, march, nor eat at night. Congregate in piles two or more deep, or on small shrubs 

 .and weeds. 31. About the same velocity as the wind. — [Smith. 



Walhalla, Pembina County. — 23. They do not hatch in the Fall. 24. It is said they 

 begin to eat in the places where they alight, and tuat they don't care whether they 

 are cultivated or wild. They prefer plants which are young and tender, especially 

 onions and lettuce. When they came to Manitoba in 1868 they ate things which were 

 not eatable, such as the paint off the doors and cupboards, the bark off the trees and 

 logs; they ate holes in the carpets and articles of clothing. An acquaintance of mine 

 gave a pill to one, and it ate it. They were lying so thick around the fort (Garry) 

 that those residing in it laad to hire some men to haul the dead ones away. * * * 

 They had died simply for want of food ; they were so famished that they devoured 

 each other. * * * The prairie and woods were quite close by. Why did they not 

 go there ? 25. They do not relish pease. 27. Prairie chickens, domestic fowls. 28. No 

 measures have been taken. 29. About one-eighth timber to prairie. 30. Locusts 

 neither fly, march, nor eat at night. 31. Swarms moved at the rate of three miles per 

 hour.— [Ernestine Mager. 



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