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  CONTENTS 
  

  

  Page. 
  

   LETTER 
  OF 
  TRANSMITTAL 
  IX 
  

  

  PREFACE 
  xin 
  

  

  CHAPTER 
  I. 
  

  

  Additions 
  to 
  the 
  chronology 
  of 
  locust 
  ravages 
  1 
  

  

  The 
  locust 
  in 
  1878 
  in 
  Minnesota 
  and 
  Iowa, 
  1 
  — 
  in 
  Nebraska, 
  Texas 
  and 
  Indian 
  

   Territory, 
  2 
  — 
  in 
  Kansas, 
  2, 
  3 
  — 
  in 
  Dakota, 
  3, 
  4 
  — 
  in 
  Colorado, 
  4 
  — 
  in 
  Wyo- 
  

   ming, 
  4, 
  5 
  — 
  in 
  Utah 
  and 
  Idaho, 
  5-7 
  — 
  in 
  Eastern 
  Oregon 
  and 
  Nevada, 
  7 
  — 
  

   in 
  Montana, 
  7-9 
  — 
  Summary, 
  9 
  — 
  The 
  locust 
  in 
  1879 
  in 
  Nebraska, 
  Washing- 
  

   ington 
  Territory, 
  Dakota, 
  and 
  Texas, 
  10 
  — 
  in 
  Colorado, 
  10, 
  11 
  — 
  in 
  Wyoming, 
  

   11, 
  12— 
  in 
  Utah, 
  12, 
  13— 
  in 
  Montana, 
  13, 
  14. 
  

  

  CHAPTER 
  II. 
  

  

  THE 
  RELATION 
  OF 
  THE 
  LOCUST 
  AND 
  ITS 
  RAVAGES 
  TO 
  AGRICULTURE 
  AND 
  THE 
  

  

  SETTLEMENT 
  OF 
  THE 
  TERRITORIES 
  14 
  

  

  Character 
  of 
  the 
  Permanent 
  Region, 
  15 
  — 
  Importance 
  of 
  subduing 
  the 
  locusts 
  

   in 
  the 
  Permanent 
  Region 
  15, 
  16 
  — 
  Difficulties 
  of 
  burniDg 
  over, 
  16-18 
  — 
  Ex- 
  

   termination 
  impossible, 
  but 
  subjection 
  possible, 
  19, 
  20 
  — 
  Settlement 
  of 
  the 
  

   Permanent 
  Region 
  the 
  best 
  remedy, 
  19, 
  20 
  — 
  Source 
  of 
  the 
  more 
  destructive 
  

   swarms, 
  20 
  — 
  Railroad 
  needed 
  in 
  the 
  Permanent 
  Region, 
  21 
  — 
  Agricultural, 
  

   not 
  pastoral, 
  population 
  wanted, 
  22 
  — 
  Difficulties 
  of 
  constructing 
  railroads 
  

   in 
  the 
  Permanent 
  Region, 
  22 
  — 
  Climatic 
  character 
  of 
  the 
  Permanent 
  Re- 
  

   gion, 
  23 
  — 
  Disturbing 
  and 
  fighting 
  the 
  locusts 
  in 
  the 
  Permanent 
  Region, 
  

   24, 
  25— 
  Other 
  proposed 
  plans, 
  25— 
  Plowing 
  not 
  feasible, 
  25, 
  26 
  — 
  The 
  locust 
  

   question 
  solved 
  in 
  the 
  Temporary 
  Region, 
  26 
  — 
  New- 
  definition 
  of 
  the 
  Tem- 
  

   porary 
  Region, 
  27, 
  28 
  — 
  The 
  locust 
  jiroblem 
  a 
  national 
  one, 
  29-31. 
  

  

  CHAPTER 
  III. 
  

  

  Facts 
  concerning 
  and 
  laws 
  governing 
  the 
  migrations 
  of 
  locusts 
  in 
  

   all 
  countries 
  31 
  

  

  Most 
  species 
  of 
  Acrididce 
  not 
  migratory, 
  31 
  — 
  Migratory 
  disposition 
  not 
  caused 
  

   by 
  anatomical 
  differences, 
  31, 
  32 
  — 
  Writers 
  on 
  locust 
  flights, 
  32, 
  33 
  — 
  

   Earliest 
  accounts 
  of 
  locust 
  flights 
  in 
  Europe, 
  33, 
  34 
  — 
  Locust 
  flights 
  in 
  

   Europe 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  ages, 
  34-37; 
  in 
  the 
  seventeenth 
  century, 
  37, 
  38 
  — 
  The 
  

   locust 
  invasion 
  of 
  1693 
  in 
  Europe, 
  38, 
  39 
  — 
  Locust 
  flights 
  in 
  Europe 
  in 
  the 
  

   eighteenth 
  and 
  nineteenth 
  centuries, 
  40, 
  4t 
  — 
  Locusts 
  in 
  Asia 
  and 
  adjacent 
  

   islands, 
  41 
  — 
  in 
  Cyprus, 
  42 
  — 
  in 
  Arabia 
  and 
  Syria, 
  43, 
  44 
  — 
  in 
  Persia, 
  44 
  — 
  in 
  the 
  

   Steppes, 
  45 
  — 
  in 
  China, 
  46— 
  in 
  Manila, 
  46— 
  in 
  India, 
  46,47— 
  in 
  Australia, 
  47 
  — 
  

   in 
  New 
  Zealand, 
  47 
  — 
  Locust 
  flights 
  in 
  Africa, 
  48 
  — 
  in 
  Northern 
  Africa, 
  48,49 
  — 
  

   in 
  Egypt, 
  49 
  — 
  in 
  Algiers, 
  50,51 
  — 
  in 
  Abyssinia, 
  51 
  — 
  in 
  Central 
  Africa, 
  51 
  — 
  in 
  

   Eastern 
  Africa 
  and 
  the 
  Canary 
  Islands, 
  52, 
  53 
  — 
  Locusts 
  in 
  South 
  America, 
  

   53, 
  54 
  — 
  Prevalence 
  oflocusts 
  in 
  deserts 
  and 
  dry 
  regions, 
  54, 
  55 
  — 
  Locustflights 
  

  

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