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  REPORT 
  UNITED 
  STATES 
  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
  COMMISSION. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  William 
  F. 
  Wheeler 
  writes 
  : 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  traveled 
  all 
  over 
  Montana 
  this 
  year, 
  and 
  it 
  gives 
  me 
  great 
  pleasure 
  to 
  state 
  

   that 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  or 
  heard 
  of 
  no 
  migratory 
  locusts 
  or 
  grasshoppers 
  this 
  year. 
  Our 
  crops 
  

   have 
  not 
  heen 
  injured 
  by 
  them 
  in 
  the 
  slightest 
  degree. 
  Some 
  doubt 
  about 
  our 
  having 
  

   them 
  next 
  year, 
  because 
  there 
  are 
  no 
  visible 
  deposits 
  of 
  eggs. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  W. 
  0. 
  Gillitte 
  writes 
  from 
  Dearborn, 
  Lewis 
  and 
  Clarke 
  Counties: 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  been 
  during 
  the 
  summer 
  in 
  that 
  section 
  of 
  Montana 
  lying 
  between 
  Helena 
  

   and 
  Sun 
  River, 
  and 
  I 
  have 
  neither 
  seen 
  nor 
  heard 
  of 
  any 
  locust 
  flying 
  over 
  or 
  alight- 
  

   ing 
  in 
  this 
  region 
  ; 
  in 
  fact 
  the 
  native 
  grasshoppers 
  were 
  very 
  scarce 
  compared 
  with 
  

   previous 
  seasons. 
  I 
  have 
  not 
  heard 
  of 
  any 
  damage 
  caused 
  by 
  the 
  locust 
  in 
  other 
  

   parts 
  of 
  the 
  Territory. 
  My 
  opinion 
  is 
  that 
  we 
  shall 
  have 
  several 
  years 
  of 
  freedom 
  from 
  

   this 
  plague. 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  in 
  the 
  Territory 
  seventeen 
  years, 
  and 
  judge 
  by 
  the 
  past. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  James 
  Fergus 
  writes 
  from 
  near 
  Helena 
  : 
  

  

  We 
  have 
  been 
  entirely 
  free 
  from 
  grasshoppers 
  in 
  this 
  portion 
  of 
  Montana 
  the 
  past 
  

   season 
  — 
  the 
  first 
  entire 
  exemption 
  in 
  many 
  years. 
  As 
  no 
  eggs 
  were 
  laid, 
  we 
  shall 
  

   <expect 
  no 
  young 
  to 
  hatch 
  and 
  destroy 
  our 
  crops 
  next 
  spring. 
  

  

  J. 
  S. 
  Woolman, 
  Territorial 
  auditor, 
  writes 
  from 
  Helena 
  : 
  

  

  As 
  this 
  is 
  the 
  only 
  year 
  since 
  1872 
  that 
  Montana 
  has 
  been 
  exempt 
  from 
  injury 
  from 
  

   locust, 
  it 
  appears 
  highly 
  probable 
  there 
  will 
  be 
  another 
  immigration 
  here 
  in 
  1880. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  J. 
  D. 
  McCaman 
  writes 
  from 
  Bozeman 
  : 
  

  

  There 
  were 
  not 
  many 
  hatched 
  in 
  this 
  county 
  this 
  season 
  ; 
  some 
  hatched 
  on 
  my 
  

   farm 
  and 
  vicinity 
  ; 
  they 
  did 
  not 
  do 
  any 
  perceptible 
  damage. 
  The 
  course 
  the 
  young 
  

   hoppers 
  travel 
  is 
  southwest 
  ; 
  after 
  they 
  obtain 
  their 
  wings 
  they 
  rise 
  and 
  fly 
  away 
  from 
  

   the 
  location 
  where 
  they 
  were 
  hatched. 
  The 
  course 
  is 
  generally 
  southwest. 
  I 
  was 
  

   east 
  during 
  the 
  summer 
  ; 
  the 
  men 
  on 
  my 
  farm 
  saw 
  some 
  swarms 
  in 
  the 
  air. 
  I 
  pre- 
  

   sume 
  they 
  were 
  the 
  ones 
  hatched 
  and 
  reared 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity. 
  We 
  cannot 
  reasonably 
  

   expect 
  any 
  hoppers 
  next 
  season, 
  as 
  there 
  were 
  no 
  eggs 
  deposited 
  in 
  this 
  vicinity 
  and 
  

   I 
  have 
  not 
  learned 
  of 
  any 
  being 
  deposited 
  in 
  the 
  Territory. 
  

  

  CHAPTER 
  II. 
  

  

  THE 
  EELATION 
  OF 
  THE 
  LOCUST 
  AND 
  ITS 
  EAVAGES 
  TO 
  

   AGEICULTUEE 
  AND 
  THE 
  SETTLEMENT 
  OF 
  THE 
  TEEEL 
  

   TOEIES. 
  

  

  The 
  whole 
  of 
  our 
  first 
  report 
  and 
  all 
  of 
  that 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  which 
  

   Telates 
  to 
  the 
  locusts 
  might 
  very 
  properly 
  be 
  included 
  under 
  the 
  above 
  

   title 
  ; 
  but 
  our 
  object 
  in 
  devoting 
  a 
  chapter 
  to 
  the 
  subject 
  named 
  is 
  to 
  

   call 
  attention 
  more 
  particularly 
  to 
  the 
  effect 
  of 
  locust 
  visitations 
  on 
  the 
  

   agricultural 
  condition 
  and 
  prospects 
  of 
  the 
  newly-settled 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  

   West, 
  and 
  also 
  to 
  what 
  is 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  their 
  effect 
  on 
  the 
  settlement 
  of 
  

   the 
  Territories. 
  

  

  This 
  topic 
  if 
  properly 
  discussed 
  will 
  have 
  to 
  be 
  considered 
  in 
  two 
  

   divisions, 
  one 
  relating 
  to 
  the 
  sections 
  within 
  the 
  permanent 
  and 
  sub- 
  

   permanent 
  areas, 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  relating 
  to 
  those 
  lying 
  in 
  the 
  temporary 
  

   region. 
  

  

  