﻿APPENDIX 
  1. 
  — 
  MINNESOTA 
  DATA, 
  lb77. 
  [17] 
  

  

  )gg9 
  aro 
  deposited 
  in 
  many 
  places 
  where 
  plowing 
  is 
  impracticable, 
  and 
  hence 
  where 
  

   'hoppers 
  hatch 
  out 
  numerously 
  in 
  such 
  places, 
  unless 
  destroyed, 
  they 
  will 
  travel 
  

  

  E| 
  

   the 
  

  

  to 
  and 
  destroy 
  crops. 
  It 
  is 
  difficult 
  to 
  say 
  here 
  what 
  crops 
  or 
  vegetation 
  they 
  prefer, 
  

   as 
  when 
  here 
  in 
  1875 
  they 
  ate 
  everything 
  about 
  dean 
  as 
  they 
  went, 
  except 
  prairie 
  

   grass 
  and 
  forest 
  tree 
  leaves. 
  They 
  are 
  bound 
  to 
  eat 
  and 
  live 
  even 
  if 
  they 
  have 
  to 
  be- 
  

   come 
  cannibals. 
  In 
  this 
  section 
  they 
  ate 
  last 
  fall 
  all 
  the 
  early 
  fall 
  sowing 
  of 
  grain 
  and 
  

   grass 
  seed. 
  

  

  C. 
  C. 
  SMITH. 
  

  

  Pleasant 
  Home, 
  Polk 
  County, 
  August 
  11, 
  1877. 
  

   The 
  grasshoppers 
  aro 
  flying 
  in 
  the 
  air 
  to-day, 
  and 
  have 
  been 
  for 
  the 
  last 
  eight 
  or 
  

   ten 
  days. 
  They 
  are 
  not 
  traveling 
  in 
  any 
  particular 
  direction, 
  sometimes 
  north, 
  some- 
  

   times 
  south, 
  just 
  whichever 
  direction 
  the 
  wind 
  is 
  blowing. 
  A 
  good 
  many 
  alighted 
  in 
  

   my 
  wheat 
  field 
  yesterday, 
  and 
  commenced 
  cutting 
  the 
  heads 
  off 
  the 
  wheat 
  ; 
  they 
  

   have 
  not 
  done 
  any 
  damage 
  to 
  amount 
  to 
  anything. 
  The 
  air 
  has 
  been 
  full 
  of 
  them, 
  

   but 
  they 
  have 
  not 
  traveled 
  iu 
  swarms 
  as 
  they 
  did 
  last 
  summer. 
  

  

  W. 
  W. 
  ELLIOTT. 
  

  

  G. 
  M. 
  Dodge's 
  record 
  of 
  locust 
  flights 
  in 
  Nebraska 
  in 
  1677. 
  

  

  Glencoe, 
  Dodge 
  County, 
  Nebraska. 
  

  

  June 
  22. 
  — 
  Spretus 
  has 
  done 
  little 
  injury 
  yet. 
  During 
  the 
  last 
  week 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  

   the 
  insects 
  have 
  pupated. 
  The 
  young 
  appear 
  to 
  be 
  moving 
  north. 
  

  

  June 
  14. 
  — 
  Wind 
  southwest; 
  clear 
  day 
  ; 
  many 
  grasshoppers 
  flying, 
  and 
  some 
  alight- 
  

   ing 
  ; 
  flying 
  with 
  the 
  wind 
  as 
  they 
  invariably 
  do 
  here. 
  

  

  June 
  10, 
  17. 
  — 
  Wind 
  southwest 
  and 
  grasshoppers 
  flying 
  ; 
  few 
  alighted. 
  

  

  June 
  22. 
  — 
  Wind 
  southeast 
  : 
  grasshoppers 
  flying 
  ; 
  few 
  or 
  none 
  alighted. 
  Native 
  grass- 
  

   hoppers 
  (Cat. 
  minor 
  Lc. 
  and 
  Gomph. 
  clepsydra 
  Le.) 
  are 
  just 
  getting 
  their 
  wings; 
  being 
  

   ahead 
  of 
  C. 
  spretus, 
  but 
  behind 
  their 
  usual 
  season. 
  

  

  July 
  15, 
  18,21. 
  — 
  Flying 
  southwest 
  abundantly; 
  some 
  alighted. 
  

  

  August 
  2. 
  — 
  Flying 
  southwest 
  ; 
  wind 
  changed 
  and 
  they 
  alighted, 
  but 
  were 
  only 
  

   thick 
  on 
  small 
  areas. 
  

  

  Augusts. 
  — 
  Wind 
  light 
  from 
  northwest; 
  spretus 
  flying 
  over 
  and 
  alighting; 
  wind 
  

   freshened 
  in 
  afternoon, 
  and 
  the 
  new 
  arrivals 
  and 
  those 
  of 
  August 
  2 
  all 
  left. 
  

  

  August 
  7. 
  — 
  Clear. 
  Flying 
  southeast 
  all 
  day. 
  

  

  August 
  9. 
  — 
  Flying 
  a 
  steady 
  stream 
  all 
  day 
  southwest 
  ; 
  some 
  alighted. 
  

  

  August 
  11. 
  — 
  Flying 
  southeast; 
  arrivals 
  of 
  the 
  9th 
  mostly 
  left. 
  

  

  August 
  12. 
  — 
  Some 
  flying 
  northwest. 
  

  

  August 
  14; 
  15. 
  — 
  Flying 
  southeast 
  iu 
  great 
  abundance. 
  

  

  August 
  16. 
  — 
  Flying 
  abundantly 
  southwest. 
  

  

  DATA 
  FOR 
  MINNESOTA. 
  

  

  Marshfield, 
  Lincoln 
  County, 
  August 
  4, 
  1877. 
  

  

  Invariably 
  since 
  last 
  commuuication, 
  when 
  the 
  wind 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  east, 
  north, 
  or 
  west, 
  

   locusts 
  have 
  been 
  flying 
  over. 
  The 
  heaviest 
  swarms 
  when 
  the 
  wind 
  was 
  north, 
  none 
  

   flying 
  with 
  wind 
  south 
  or 
  southwest, 
  their 
  general 
  course 
  to 
  the 
  southeast 
  ; 
  none 
  seen 
  

   on 
  the 
  wing 
  till 
  about 
  11 
  o'clock 
  a. 
  m. 
  ; 
  continue 
  flying 
  till 
  sundown, 
  how 
  much 
  longer 
  

   impossible 
  to 
  tell. 
  

  

  Our 
  county 
  has 
  suffered 
  less 
  from 
  locusts 
  than 
  counties 
  further 
  east. 
  Only 
  one 
  year 
  

   in 
  the 
  last 
  six 
  have 
  they 
  deposited 
  any 
  eggs 
  with 
  us 
  (last 
  summer), 
  and 
  then 
  but 
  few. 
  

   We 
  have 
  suffered 
  most 
  from 
  migratory 
  swarms. 
  Perhaps 
  this 
  may 
  be 
  the 
  reason 
  : 
  Our 
  

   county 
  is 
  on 
  the 
  "dividing 
  ridge" 
  between 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  and 
  Missouri, 
  nearly 
  2,000 
  

   feet 
  above 
  sea 
  level, 
  and 
  is 
  rather 
  wet, 
  nearly 
  one-quarter 
  of 
  the 
  area 
  being 
  lakes 
  and 
  

   meadow. 
  Altogether 
  a 
  country 
  for 
  stock 
  raising. 
  The 
  upland 
  prairie 
  this 
  season 
  cov- 
  

   ered 
  with 
  a 
  blue 
  joint 
  grass 
  nearly 
  two 
  feet 
  high 
  ; 
  soil 
  black, 
  sticky. 
  

  

  Two 
  or 
  three 
  days 
  the 
  locusts 
  alighted 
  in 
  large 
  numbers 
  in 
  places 
  a 
  few 
  rods 
  across, 
  

   perhaps 
  i 
  to 
  1 
  mile 
  apart, 
  seemed 
  eicklv, 
  covered 
  with 
  red 
  parasites. 
  

  

  M. 
  L. 
  WOOD. 
  

  

  [The 
  following 
  record 
  of 
  flights 
  from 
  Worthington, 
  Nobles 
  County, 
  Minnesota, 
  has 
  

   "been 
  furnished 
  us 
  by 
  Lieut. 
  R. 
  B. 
  Platts, 
  U. 
  S. 
  N.] 
  

  

  1877. 
  

  

  July 
  1. 
  — 
  High 
  up 
  is 
  quite 
  a 
  flight 
  going 
  west 
  and 
  northwest 
  on 
  a 
  southeast 
  wind. 
  

   Wind 
  hauled 
  from 
  northeast 
  since 
  9 
  a. 
  m. 
  Yesterday 
  wind 
  was 
  very 
  strong, 
  a 
  gale 
  

  

  [2] 
  

  

  