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  REPORT 
  UNITED 
  STATES 
  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
  COMMISSION. 
  

  

  be 
  observed 
  that 
  this 
  town 
  is 
  about 
  fifty 
  miles 
  from 
  the 
  Colorado 
  border, 
  

   Taos 
  being 
  about 
  thirty-five 
  miles 
  from 
  the 
  Colorado 
  line. 
  In 
  July 
  of 
  

   this 
  year, 
  the 
  crops 
  in 
  the 
  counties 
  of 
  Eio 
  Ariba, 
  Taos, 
  Santa 
  F6, 
  and 
  

   San 
  Miguel, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  Costilla 
  and 
  Culebra 
  Counties, 
  in 
  Southern 
  Colo- 
  

   rado, 
  a 
  were 
  almost 
  entirely 
  destroyed" 
  by 
  locusts, 
  and 
  the 
  people 
  of 
  

   these 
  afflicted 
  counties 
  had 
  to 
  call 
  for 
  help 
  on 
  the 
  southern 
  counties 
  of 
  

   New 
  Mexico, 
  whose 
  inhabitants 
  sent 
  provisions. 
  It 
  is 
  most 
  probable 
  

   that 
  the 
  injury 
  was 
  done 
  by 
  the 
  young 
  which 
  hatched 
  from 
  eggs 
  laid 
  

   the 
  previous 
  autumn. 
  

  

  At 
  Santa 
  Fe 
  the 
  locusts 
  were 
  seen 
  passing 
  over 
  in 
  swarms 
  from 
  the 
  

   southwest 
  in 
  July, 
  filling 
  the 
  air, 
  and 
  flying 
  towards 
  Taos, 
  but 
  as 
  a 
  

   rule 
  they 
  came 
  irom 
  Taos, 
  which 
  lies 
  to 
  the 
  northeast 
  of 
  Santa 
  Fe. 
  

   They 
  were 
  abundant 
  and 
  destructive 
  at 
  Las 
  Yegas, 
  San 
  Miguel 
  County, 
  

   this 
  year. 
  

  

  The 
  Pueblo 
  Indians, 
  an 
  industrious 
  and 
  thrifty 
  people, 
  nearly 
  as 
  ad- 
  

   vanced 
  in 
  civilization 
  and 
  rather 
  more 
  respectable 
  than 
  the 
  average 
  

   Mexican 
  inhabitants 
  of 
  New 
  Mexico, 
  suffered 
  severely 
  this 
  year 
  with 
  

   their 
  neighbors. 
  Governor 
  Amy 
  informed 
  us 
  that 
  the 
  following 
  Pueblo 
  

   villages 
  suffered 
  this 
  year 
  : 
  Santa 
  Ildefonse, 
  situated 
  sixteen 
  miles 
  north- 
  

   west 
  of 
  Santa 
  Fe 
  ; 
  also 
  the 
  pueblos 
  of 
  Tezuque, 
  Santa 
  Clara, 
  Pojauque, 
  

   Nambe, 
  and 
  especially 
  of 
  Taos. 
  These 
  Indians 
  lay 
  up 
  supplies 
  of 
  grain 
  

   two 
  or 
  three 
  years 
  in 
  advance 
  to 
  provide 
  against 
  drought 
  and 
  locusts. 
  

  

  The 
  Mexican 
  name 
  for 
  grasshopper 
  or 
  locust 
  is 
  Ghopolin 
  (a 
  corruption 
  

   of 
  Ghapulin 
  f) 
  ; 
  the 
  Pueblo 
  Indian 
  name 
  is 
  Kowe 
  or 
  KoJie, 
  or 
  the 
  word 
  

   is 
  pronounced 
  with 
  a 
  guttural 
  accent 
  like 
  Khone. 
  

  

  We 
  were 
  told 
  by 
  Mr. 
  John 
  Bouquet, 
  of 
  Pojauque, 
  that 
  locusts 
  hatched 
  

   there 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1877 
  and 
  eat 
  up 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  crop. 
  It 
  is 
  evident 
  

   that 
  the 
  light 
  swarms 
  from 
  Southern 
  Colorado 
  which 
  visited 
  the 
  region 
  

   about 
  San 
  Juan 
  and 
  southward 
  in 
  October, 
  and 
  attracted 
  little 
  atten- 
  

   tion, 
  laid 
  eggs 
  over 
  a 
  pretty 
  extensive 
  region 
  in 
  Northern 
  New 
  Mexico, 
  

   and 
  that 
  the 
  progeny 
  of 
  these 
  flights 
  did 
  the 
  damage 
  recorded 
  in 
  1877, 
  

   and 
  that 
  as 
  soon 
  as 
  the 
  young 
  became 
  fledged 
  they 
  flew 
  northward 
  back 
  

   to 
  the 
  region 
  from 
  which 
  their 
  parents 
  came. 
  This 
  agrees 
  with 
  the 
  gen- 
  

   eral 
  facts 
  observed 
  in 
  the 
  region 
  of 
  the 
  Western 
  Mississippi 
  States 
  from 
  

   Missouri 
  to 
  Texas, 
  when 
  the 
  winds 
  early 
  in 
  summer 
  blow 
  from 
  the 
  south- 
  

   ward, 
  carrying 
  the 
  newly-fledged 
  locusts 
  back 
  to 
  the 
  permanent 
  breeding- 
  

   grounds, 
  from 
  which 
  they 
  fly 
  south 
  and 
  west 
  in 
  the 
  autumn 
  with 
  the 
  

   northwesterly 
  winds 
  then 
  prevailing. 
  

  

  1878. 
  — 
  A 
  few 
  locusts 
  were 
  at 
  San 
  Juan 
  in 
  this 
  year. 
  They 
  were 
  also 
  

   seen 
  in 
  the 
  mountains, 
  and 
  seemed 
  to 
  disappear 
  west 
  of 
  the 
  Eio 
  Grande 
  

   River. 
  We 
  were 
  told 
  that 
  in 
  October 
  of 
  this 
  year 
  a 
  few 
  locusts 
  flew 
  

   from 
  the 
  northeast 
  to 
  Paiia 
  Blanca, 
  hatching 
  out 
  in 
  1879. 
  (This 
  state- 
  

   ment 
  needs 
  confirmation 
  j 
  it 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  confounded 
  with 
  the 
  Octo. 
  

   ber 
  flight 
  from 
  the 
  northward 
  of 
  187G.) 
  Locusts, 
  however, 
  hatched 
  out 
  

   at 
  Taos 
  in 
  1878, 
  and 
  when 
  fledged 
  flew 
  towards 
  the 
  northwest 
  into 
  

   Colorado. 
  

  

  