﻿CHAPTER 
  I. 
  

   ADDITIONS 
  TO 
  THE 
  CHRONOLOGY 
  OF 
  LOCUST 
  RAVAG1 
  

  

  THE 
  EOCKY 
  MOUNTAIN 
  LOCUST 
  IN 
  1878. 
  

  

  THE 
  LOCUST 
  IN 
  MINNESOTA 
  IN 
  1878 
  

  

  In 
  a 
  letter, 
  dated 
  August 
  2G. 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  Whitman, 
  of 
  Saint 
  Paul, 
  Mil 
  

   says 
  : 
  

  

  I 
  inclose 
  a 
  few 
  more 
  clippings 
  on 
  grasshoppers. 
  I 
  see 
  by 
  the 
  papers 
  that 
  a 
  sw 
  

   of 
  them 
  alighted 
  at 
  Mankato 
  a 
  few 
  days 
  ago. 
  All 
  these 
  cases 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  wandei 
  

   squads 
  that 
  make 
  short 
  visits, 
  and 
  they 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  as 
  much 
  scattered 
  as 
  they 
  wer 
  

   the 
  end 
  of 
  last 
  year. 
  

  

  The 
  same 
  correspondent 
  writes, 
  November 
  3, 
  1S78: 
  

  

  There 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  a 
  slight 
  raid 
  across 
  the 
  southwest 
  corner 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  1 
  

   in 
  the 
  summer. 
  There 
  was 
  nothing 
  to 
  hurt 
  then, 
  and 
  as 
  it 
  lasted 
  but 
  a 
  few 
  da;; 
  

   don't 
  believe 
  there 
  are 
  eggs 
  enough 
  to 
  do 
  any 
  hurt. 
  

  

  The 
  clippings 
  sent 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Whitman 
  refer 
  to 
  the 
  appearance 
  of 
  t 
  

   Locust 
  in 
  Dakota, 
  and 
  only 
  the 
  following 
  refer 
  to 
  Minnesota 
  : 
  

  

  We 
  understand 
  that 
  on 
  Monday 
  last. 
  12th, 
  a 
  pretty 
  numerous 
  swarm 
  of 
  grasshopp 
  

   settled 
  down 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Luverne, 
  and 
  still 
  remained 
  there 
  on 
  Thursday. 
  Tl 
  

   had 
  not 
  laid 
  eggs 
  at 
  last 
  accounts. 
  — 
  [ATanJcato 
  Review, 
  Eock 
  County, 
  August 
  20, 
  It 
  

  

  Reports 
  from 
  Rock 
  County 
  in 
  this 
  State, 
  and 
  the 
  counties 
  bordering 
  in 
  Dakota, 
  

   to 
  the 
  effect 
  that 
  the 
  grasshoppers 
  which 
  recently 
  settled 
  down 
  there 
  are 
  laying 
  eg 
  

   They 
  occupy 
  a 
  pretty 
  large 
  district, 
  chiefly 
  a 
  locality 
  in 
  which 
  but 
  little 
  damage 
  t 
  

   done 
  during 
  their 
  previous 
  raid. 
  — 
  I 
  Mankato 
  Review, 
  September 
  3, 
  1878. 
  

  

  'Hoppers 
  were 
  seen 
  flying 
  over 
  Big 
  Stone 
  County 
  last 
  week. 
  — 
  [Pioneer 
  Press, 
  M 
  

   nesota. 
  August 
  11. 
  1878. 
  

  

  A 
  gentleman 
  who 
  was 
  in 
  Saint 
  Paul 
  yesterday, 
  from 
  Nobles 
  County, 
  reported 
  i 
  

   unusual 
  prevalence 
  of 
  grasshoppers 
  in 
  that 
  county. 
  He 
  says 
  that 
  they 
  are 
  consumi 
  

   the 
  corn 
  and 
  almost 
  everything 
  to 
  be 
  consumed, 
  and 
  doing 
  a 
  good 
  deal 
  of 
  devastate 
  

   ' 
  — 
  [Pioneer 
  Press, 
  September 
  11. 
  [Nothing 
  to 
  devastate. 
  — 
  A. 
  TV.~] 
  

  

  THE 
  LOCUST 
  IN 
  IOWA 
  IN 
  1878. 
  

  

  The 
  grasshoppers 
  have 
  hatched 
  out 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Red 
  Oak, 
  20 
  miles 
  east 
  of 
  he 
  

   in 
  large 
  numbers, 
  but 
  are 
  doing 
  no 
  damage 
  worth 
  mentioning. 
  They 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  c 
  

   eased 
  and 
  are 
  only 
  in 
  a 
  small 
  locality 
  about 
  20 
  miles 
  square. 
  They 
  are 
  the 
  only 
  oi 
  

   that 
  I 
  have 
  heard 
  from 
  in 
  the 
  Northwest 
  this 
  spring. 
  — 
  [W. 
  K. 
  Jollett, 
  Malvern, 
  Iot 
  

   i 
  Fort 
  Dodge, 
  Iowa, 
  September 
  5.— 
  A 
  few 
  days 
  ago 
  the 
  people 
  of 
  Northwestern 
  Io 
  

   were 
  somewhat 
  alarmed 
  by 
  a 
  report 
  that 
  the 
  grasshoppers 
  were 
  again 
  upon 
  us. 
  Up 
  

   inquiry 
  we 
  find 
  the 
  fact 
  to 
  be 
  that 
  they 
  alighted 
  one 
  evening 
  somewhere 
  betwc 
  

   I, 
  Cherokee 
  and 
  Le 
  Mars, 
  densely 
  covering 
  a 
  tract 
  of 
  country 
  three 
  or 
  four 
  miles 
  wit 
  

   i' 
  They 
  took 
  wing 
  again 
  early 
  on 
  the 
  following 
  day, 
  and 
  left 
  without 
  doing 
  serious 
  inji 
  

   to 
  anything, 
  and 
  without 
  depositing 
  any 
  eggs. 
  They 
  came 
  from 
  the 
  Northwest 
  a 
  

   went 
  toward 
  the 
  Southwest.— 
  [Chicago 
  Tribune. 
  

  

  The 
  Rocky 
  Mountain 
  News, 
  of 
  October 
  30, 
  1878, 
  reports 
  the 
  locusts 
  i 
  

   juring 
  fall 
  wheat 
  lately 
  sown 
  at 
  Fort 
  Madison, 
  September 
  30. 
  

  

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