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  REPORT 
  UNITED 
  STATES 
  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
  COMMISSION. 
  

  

  2a. 
  From 
  northwest 
  ; 
  gale. 
  

   26. 
  Clear. 
  

  

  2c. 
  To 
  southeast, 
  part 
  going 
  and 
  part 
  remaining, 
  till 
  they 
  perished 
  by 
  cold 
  and 
  

   starvation. 
  

  

  Question 
  3. 
  No 
  eggs 
  deposited. 
  

  

  Question 
  4- 
  15th 
  ultimo. 
  

  

  Question 
  5. 
  May 
  10, 
  1875. 
  

  

  Question 
  6. 
  But 
  few 
  failed. 
  

  

  Question 
  7. 
  Soil, 
  with 
  a 
  clay 
  tendency 
  and 
  well 
  drained. 
  

  

  Question 
  8. 
  Same 
  as 
  above. 
  

  

  Question 
  9. 
  1875, 
  about 
  June 
  3. 
  Haven't 
  wings 
  the 
  present 
  year. 
  

  

  Question 
  10. 
  Same 
  as 
  above. 
  

  

  Question 
  11. 
  In 
  county, 
  1874, 
  125 
  per 
  cent. 
  ; 
  1875, 
  50 
  per 
  cent. 
  ; 
  1876, 
  10 
  per 
  cent. 
  

  

  Question 
  12. 
  1874. 
  Corn 
  and. 
  vegetables. 
  

  

  1875. 
  Wheat, 
  barley, 
  and 
  vegetables. 
  

  

  1876. 
  Corn 
  and 
  vegetables. 
  

  

  Question 
  15. 
  They 
  march 
  for 
  some 
  field 
  of 
  grain, 
  and 
  stay 
  there 
  until 
  fledged, 
  if 
  

   good 
  picking. 
  

  

  Question 
  16. 
  Burning 
  prairie 
  grass, 
  placing 
  straw 
  or 
  hay 
  where 
  thick 
  and 
  burning 
  ; 
  

   satisfactory. 
  

  

  Question 
  19. 
  Visited 
  in 
  1876. 
  

  

  Question 
  20. 
  1874, 
  July 
  26 
  ; 
  1875, 
  from 
  3d 
  till 
  last 
  of 
  June. 
  Also 
  hatched. 
  

  

  Question 
  21. 
  Very 
  useful. 
  

  

  Question 
  23. 
  Never 
  known 
  any 
  to 
  hatch. 
  

  

  Question 
  24. 
  Radishes, 
  cabbage, 
  onions, 
  rhubarb, 
  tansy, 
  wild 
  and 
  tamebuck 
  wheat. 
  

  

  Question 
  25. 
  Peas, 
  tomatoes, 
  sweet 
  and 
  Irish 
  potatoes, 
  vines 
  of 
  all 
  kinds. 
  

  

  Question 
  26. 
  No 
  damage 
  yet. 
  

  

  Question 
  27. 
  Hogs, 
  squirrels 
  (prairie, 
  gray, 
  and 
  striped), 
  chickens, 
  and 
  wild 
  birds 
  of 
  

   different 
  kinds. 
  

  

  Question 
  28. 
  Fall 
  plowing. 
  

  

  Question 
  29. 
  98 
  to 
  100. 
  

  

  Question 
  30. 
  Only 
  saw 
  the 
  grown 
  ones 
  fiy 
  up 
  to 
  roost 
  in 
  the 
  evening. 
  The 
  young, 
  

   of 
  a 
  dry 
  evening, 
  crawl 
  up 
  on 
  stubble 
  or 
  weeds 
  cast 
  off 
  by 
  the 
  machine, 
  but 
  of 
  a 
  wet, 
  

   get 
  under 
  shelter. 
  Saw 
  first 
  'hoppers 
  hatching 
  this 
  year, 
  April 
  15. 
  (Some 
  of 
  our 
  na- 
  

   tives 
  have 
  been 
  flying 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  days.) 
  A 
  large 
  majority 
  have 
  hatched 
  mostly 
  

   last 
  ten 
  days 
  ; 
  they 
  are 
  dying, 
  I 
  think, 
  as 
  fast 
  as 
  they 
  hatch 
  ; 
  cause, 
  wet 
  and 
  cold. 
  

   I 
  find 
  dead 
  ones 
  under 
  stalks 
  and 
  grass 
  where 
  they 
  have 
  sheltered. 
  I 
  find 
  but 
  few 
  

   larger 
  than 
  when 
  first 
  hatched. 
  

  

  T. 
  N. 
  BABBITT. 
  

  

  Fall 
  City, 
  Richardson 
  County, 
  May 
  21, 
  1877. 
  

  

  Perhaps 
  I 
  ought 
  to 
  state 
  at 
  the 
  beginning 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  lived 
  here 
  on 
  the 
  same 
  80 
  

   acres 
  of 
  land 
  since 
  the 
  fall 
  of 
  1865 
  (fiearly 
  twelve 
  years), 
  and 
  have 
  kept 
  a 
  journal 
  all 
  

   the 
  time, 
  so 
  that 
  data 
  I 
  give 
  are 
  not 
  from 
  memory, 
  but 
  from 
  records 
  made 
  when 
  there 
  

   could 
  be 
  no 
  mistake. 
  

  

  We 
  have 
  seen 
  the 
  locusts 
  come 
  in 
  here 
  five 
  times, 
  and 
  at 
  present 
  the 
  fifth 
  swarm 
  is 
  

   being 
  hatched. 
  The 
  first 
  time 
  we 
  ever 
  saw 
  them 
  they 
  came 
  in 
  large 
  numbers 
  from 
  

   the 
  west, 
  on 
  September 
  7, 
  1866, 
  and 
  consequently 
  the 
  first 
  hatch 
  here 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  

   of 
  1867 
  (ten 
  years 
  ago). 
  The 
  season 
  was 
  wet 
  and 
  the 
  eggs 
  hatched 
  late, 
  as 
  they 
  are 
  

   doing 
  now, 
  and 
  I 
  think 
  there 
  were 
  quite 
  as 
  many 
  eggs 
  here 
  then 
  as 
  now. 
  Nearly 
  all 
  

   the 
  wheat, 
  oats, 
  potatoes, 
  and 
  garden 
  vegetables 
  were 
  ruined, 
  except 
  pease, 
  which 
  

   were 
  not 
  injured. 
  The 
  corn, 
  which 
  was 
  thinned 
  out 
  in 
  places 
  by 
  them 
  before 
  they 
  

   left, 
  made 
  a 
  good 
  crop. 
  In 
  1867 
  the 
  first 
  swarm 
  that 
  hatched 
  here 
  began 
  leaving 
  on 
  

   June 
  28, 
  and 
  kept 
  leaving, 
  flying 
  north 
  and 
  northwest, 
  every 
  day, 
  when 
  the 
  

   weather 
  was 
  suitable, 
  so 
  that 
  on 
  the 
  4th 
  of 
  July 
  but 
  few 
  were 
  left 
  here. 
  

  

  They 
  came 
  back 
  again 
  from 
  the 
  north 
  in 
  large 
  numbers, 
  but 
  not 
  so 
  many 
  as 
  the 
  

   year 
  before 
  (in 
  the 
  fall 
  of 
  1867). 
  In 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1868 
  they 
  hatched 
  out 
  early, 
  so 
  that 
  

   they 
  began 
  leaving 
  June 
  20, 
  but 
  they 
  were 
  not 
  numerous 
  enough 
  to 
  do 
  us 
  any 
  serious 
  

   damage. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  fall 
  of 
  1868 
  a 
  swarm 
  came 
  back, 
  but 
  smaller 
  than 
  either 
  of 
  the 
  others, 
  and 
  

   our 
  crops 
  suffered 
  but 
  little 
  from 
  the 
  hatch 
  of 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  18(59. 
  From 
  the 
  time 
  that 
  

   swarm 
  left 
  we 
  were 
  not 
  visited 
  again 
  till 
  August 
  9, 
  1874, 
  when 
  the 
  swarm 
  came 
  in 
  

   from 
  the 
  southwest. 
  The 
  eggs 
  laid 
  by 
  them 
  caused 
  a 
  total 
  destruction 
  of 
  crops 
  the 
  

   next 
  spring, 
  and, 
  as 
  a 
  consequence, 
  nearly 
  one-half 
  of 
  the 
  farms 
  in 
  this 
  county 
  are 
  

   mortgaged 
  to-day. 
  

  

  In 
  1875 
  Ave 
  saw 
  a 
  great 
  many 
  hatched 
  on 
  a 
  south 
  slope 
  on 
  the 
  19th 
  of 
  April. 
  The 
  

   weather 
  was 
  dry, 
  and 
  almost 
  every 
  egg 
  seemed 
  to 
  hatch 
  by 
  the 
  latter 
  part 
  of 
  May. 
  

   Almost 
  every 
  farm 
  in 
  the 
  two 
  counties, 
  Nemaha 
  and 
  Richardson, 
  were 
  as 
  bare 
  as 
  in 
  

   ni 
  id-winter. 
  After 
  killing 
  200 
  apple-trees 
  for 
  me, 
  they 
  began 
  to 
  leave 
  on 
  the 
  11th 
  of 
  

   June. 
  Then 
  we 
  planted 
  our 
  corn 
  again 
  ; 
  but 
  when 
  it 
  came 
  up 
  it 
  was 
  again 
  destroyed 
  

   by 
  a 
  flying 
  swarm 
  that 
  came 
  down 
  in 
  a 
  shower 
  of 
  rain. 
  We 
  planted 
  our 
  corn 
  the 
  third 
  

  

  