﻿SETTLEMENT 
  OF 
  THE 
  PERMANENT 
  REGION. 
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  and 
  some, 
  which 
  depend 
  upon 
  the 
  possibility 
  of 
  irrigation, 
  are 
  applicable 
  

   on 
  an 
  extensive 
  scale 
  only 
  in 
  the 
  permanent 
  region, 
  and 
  may 
  be 
  used 
  

   there 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  large 
  degree 
  of 
  success. 
  

  

  A 
  careful 
  investigation 
  of 
  this 
  subject 
  for 
  several 
  years 
  and 
  repeated 
  

   visits 
  in 
  person 
  to 
  this 
  region 
  have 
  served 
  to 
  convince 
  us 
  that, 
  with 
  the 
  

   advantages 
  afforded 
  by 
  the 
  system 
  of 
  irrigation 
  necessarily 
  adopted, 
  

   there 
  is 
  no 
  reason 
  why 
  the 
  agricultural 
  area 
  lying 
  along 
  the 
  east 
  flank 
  

   of 
  the 
  range 
  should 
  suffer 
  any 
  more 
  from 
  these 
  pests 
  than 
  portions 
  of 
  

   the 
  temporary 
  regions. 
  We 
  do 
  not 
  think 
  there 
  is 
  any 
  likelihood 
  of 
  this 
  

   section 
  ever 
  suffering 
  from 
  locust 
  depredations 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  extent 
  as 
  

   Southern 
  Russia, 
  yet 
  the 
  peasants 
  and 
  agriculturists 
  there 
  manage 
  to 
  

   carry 
  on 
  operations 
  and 
  maintain 
  themselves, 
  although 
  greatly 
  deficient 
  

   in 
  that 
  intelligence 
  and 
  education 
  which 
  is 
  necessary 
  to 
  enable 
  them 
  to 
  

   oombat 
  these 
  pests 
  to 
  the 
  best 
  advantage. 
  The 
  superior 
  intelligence 
  

   and 
  energy 
  of 
  our 
  farmers 
  will 
  enable 
  them 
  to 
  accomplish 
  results 
  of 
  

   which 
  the 
  Russian 
  peasants 
  are 
  wholly 
  incapable. 
  

  

  But 
  we 
  refer 
  to 
  this 
  simply 
  as 
  an 
  illustration 
  to 
  show 
  that 
  this 
  draw- 
  

   back 
  will 
  not 
  of 
  itself 
  prevent 
  the 
  settling 
  and 
  cultivation 
  of 
  the 
  arable 
  

   areas 
  of 
  the 
  permanent 
  region. 
  The 
  agriculturist 
  of 
  those 
  sections 
  will 
  

   become 
  accustomed 
  to 
  these 
  insects 
  and 
  acquire 
  a 
  thorough 
  knowledge 
  

   of 
  their 
  history 
  and 
  habits, 
  and 
  by 
  this 
  means 
  — 
  and, 
  as 
  we 
  trust, 
  largely 
  

   through 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  this 
  commission 
  — 
  learn 
  how 
  best 
  to 
  counteract 
  

   them 
  ; 
  and 
  thus 
  in 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  a 
  few 
  years 
  the 
  terror 
  their 
  invasions 
  

   once 
  caused 
  will 
  be 
  no 
  longer 
  felt, 
  and 
  they 
  will 
  be 
  ranked 
  side 
  by 
  side 
  

   with 
  the 
  chinch-bug, 
  Hessian 
  -fly, 
  cotton-worm, 
  and 
  potato-beetle. 
  

  

  Although 
  we 
  confess 
  we 
  do 
  not 
  see 
  any 
  way 
  of 
  entirely 
  preventing 
  

   the 
  incursions 
  of 
  invading 
  swarms 
  or 
  of 
  wholly 
  avoiding 
  injury 
  by 
  them, 
  

   yet 
  we 
  think 
  it 
  possible 
  and 
  feasible 
  to 
  greatly 
  modify 
  the 
  evil. 
  

  

  First, 
  the 
  means 
  already 
  suggested 
  in 
  our 
  first 
  report 
  of 
  destroying 
  

   the 
  young 
  of 
  the 
  resulting 
  broods, 
  if 
  carried 
  out 
  with 
  energy, 
  will 
  not 
  

   only 
  save 
  to 
  a 
  large 
  extent 
  the 
  crops, 
  but 
  will 
  destroy 
  a 
  very 
  large 
  

   number 
  of 
  the 
  locusts 
  ; 
  as 
  the 
  population 
  increases 
  the 
  results 
  will 
  be 
  

   more 
  and 
  more 
  fa\$orable 
  ; 
  and 
  year 
  by 
  year 
  the 
  methods 
  of 
  destroying 
  

   them 
  will 
  be 
  improved 
  upon 
  and 
  probably 
  new 
  plans 
  discovered. 
  Aside 
  

   from 
  this 
  direct 
  favorable 
  effect 
  of 
  the 
  increase 
  of 
  the 
  agricultural 
  popu- 
  

   lation 
  of 
  this 
  section, 
  there 
  will 
  be 
  a 
  secondary 
  effect 
  which 
  will 
  ten<d 
  to 
  

   modify 
  the 
  evil. 
  

  

  This 
  agricultural 
  belt, 
  extending 
  from 
  Colorado 
  into 
  British 
  America, 
  

   is 
  partly 
  along 
  the 
  margin 
  of 
  and 
  partly 
  in 
  the 
  very 
  heart 
  of 
  the 
  perma- 
  

   nent 
  breeding-grounds 
  where 
  the 
  swarms 
  that 
  invade 
  the 
  temporary 
  

   region 
  originate 
  ; 
  it 
  follows, 
  then, 
  as 
  a 
  natural 
  consequence 
  that 
  just 
  so 
  

   far 
  as 
  the 
  numbers 
  are 
  lessened 
  by 
  the 
  operations 
  in 
  this 
  section, 
  just 
  

   so 
  far 
  will 
  the 
  agriculturists 
  of 
  the 
  temporary 
  region 
  be 
  benefited, 
  and, 
  

   as 
  we 
  will 
  hereafter 
  see, 
  like 
  operations 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  region 
  will 
  benefit 
  

   those 
  in 
  the 
  permanent 
  region. 
  We 
  are 
  fully 
  aware 
  of 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  

   part 
  of 
  this 
  vast 
  region 
  which 
  can 
  be 
  irrigated 
  and 
  cultivated 
  is 
  small 
  

  

  