﻿APPENDIX 
  V. 
  

  

  DATA 
  CONCERNING 
  LOCUSTS 
  DT 
  TEXAS.* 
  

  

  Galveston, 
  Tex., 
  August 
  IS, 
  1877. 
  

   To 
  the 
  Ghief 
  Signal 
  Officer 
  of 
  the 
  Army 
  : 
  

  

  Sir 
  : 
  Agreeable 
  to 
  your 
  letters 
  of 
  May 
  17 
  and 
  June 
  9, 
  1 
  have 
  the 
  honor 
  to 
  submit 
  

   the 
  following 
  data 
  in 
  regard 
  to 
  the 
  habits 
  and 
  depredations 
  of 
  the 
  Rocky 
  Mountain 
  

   Locust 
  or 
  Grasshopper 
  in 
  this 
  State 
  during 
  the 
  present 
  year. 
  

  

  The 
  data 
  have 
  been 
  collected 
  principally 
  from 
  the 
  files 
  of 
  the 
  Galveston 
  Daily 
  News, 
  

   which 
  has 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  only 
  practicable 
  means 
  at 
  my 
  disposal 
  for 
  obtaining 
  in- 
  

   formation 
  on 
  this 
  subject, 
  all 
  requests 
  for 
  information 
  addressed 
  to 
  the 
  interior 
  por- 
  

   tions 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  having, 
  with 
  a 
  single 
  exception, 
  been 
  ignored. 
  

  

  The 
  portion 
  colored 
  red 
  on 
  the 
  accompanying 
  map 
  shows 
  the 
  section 
  of 
  country 
  

   injured 
  by 
  the 
  insects, 
  vrhich 
  is 
  nearly 
  identical 
  with 
  the 
  region 
  in 
  which 
  they 
  origi- 
  

   nally 
  hatched. 
  Xo 
  information 
  of 
  their 
  having 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  counties 
  of 
  Blanco, 
  

   Comal, 
  Burleson, 
  or 
  Karnes, 
  located 
  in 
  the 
  interior 
  of 
  this 
  section, 
  has 
  been 
  obtained. 
  

  

  A 
  careful 
  inspection 
  of 
  the 
  herewith 
  inclosed 
  data 
  enables 
  the 
  following 
  answers 
  to 
  

   bo 
  given 
  in 
  answer 
  to 
  Circular 
  Xo. 
  1 
  of 
  the 
  Entomological 
  Commission. 
  The 
  answers, 
  

   for 
  convenience, 
  are 
  numbered 
  to 
  correspond 
  with 
  the 
  questions. 
  

  

  1. 
  The 
  insects 
  generally 
  developed 
  from 
  eggs 
  deposited 
  in 
  the 
  ground 
  last 
  fall, 
  and 
  

   did 
  not 
  arrive 
  in 
  swarms 
  from 
  a 
  distance. 
  

  

  2. 
  In 
  Caldwell 
  County 
  they 
  were 
  traveling 
  northward 
  about 
  March 
  10 
  ; 
  Milam 
  

   County, 
  going 
  north 
  about 
  March 
  10 
  ; 
  Fayette 
  County, 
  going 
  westward 
  about 
  March 
  

   10; 
  Hill 
  County, 
  diminishing 
  about 
  March 
  10 
  ; 
  Bell 
  County, 
  diminishing 
  about 
  March 
  

   15 
  ; 
  De 
  Witt 
  County, 
  disappearing 
  from 
  Deer 
  Creek 
  about 
  March 
  15 
  ; 
  Milam 
  County, 
  

   jumping 
  northward 
  about 
  March 
  15 
  ; 
  Victoria 
  County, 
  leaving 
  as 
  soon 
  as 
  hatched, 
  

   about 
  March 
  15; 
  De 
  Witt 
  County, 
  hopping 
  northward 
  about 
  March 
  20; 
  McLennan 
  

   County, 
  moving 
  northward 
  about 
  March 
  20; 
  Milam 
  County, 
  going 
  northward 
  about 
  

   March 
  20; 
  Gonzales 
  County, 
  traveling 
  northward 
  about 
  March 
  30: 
  Colorado 
  County, 
  

   traveling 
  a 
  little 
  north 
  of 
  west 
  about 
  April 
  3 
  ; 
  Comanche 
  County, 
  diminishing 
  in 
  num- 
  

   bers 
  about 
  April 
  3 
  ; 
  De 
  Witt 
  County, 
  disappearing 
  in 
  spots 
  about 
  April 
  4 
  ; 
  Comanche 
  

   County, 
  disappearing 
  about 
  April 
  10 
  ; 
  Robertson 
  County, 
  hopping 
  north 
  about 
  April 
  

   10 
  ; 
  McLennan 
  County, 
  hopping 
  north 
  about 
  April 
  6 
  ; 
  Hays 
  County, 
  decreasing 
  in 
  

   numbers 
  about 
  April* 
  12; 
  Caldwell 
  County, 
  leaving 
  by 
  the 
  million 
  about 
  April 
  15 
  ; 
  

   De 
  Witt 
  County, 
  disappearing 
  about 
  April 
  10 
  ; 
  Fayette 
  County, 
  disappearing 
  about 
  

   April 
  20 
  : 
  Grimes 
  County, 
  going 
  south 
  about 
  April 
  20 
  ; 
  Waller 
  County, 
  disappearing 
  

   fast 
  about 
  April 
  20; 
  Grayson 
  County, 
  jumping 
  northward 
  on 
  April 
  25; 
  Montague 
  

   County, 
  moving 
  northward 
  about 
  April 
  20; 
  Gouzales 
  County, 
  flying 
  northward 
  about 
  

   April 
  15; 
  Washington 
  County, 
  gradually 
  disappearing 
  about 
  April 
  20; 
  Ellis 
  County, 
  

   passing 
  northward 
  slowly 
  on 
  April 
  26; 
  Washington 
  County, 
  moving 
  northward 
  on 
  

   April- 
  26; 
  Colorado 
  County, 
  rapidly 
  disappearing 
  about 
  April 
  16-23: 
  Fayette 
  County, 
  

   going 
  northward 
  on 
  April 
  15 
  ; 
  Johnson 
  County, 
  going 
  off 
  about 
  April 
  25 
  ; 
  De 
  Witt 
  

   County, 
  living 
  off 
  about 
  April 
  25; 
  Robertson 
  County, 
  disappearing 
  about 
  April 
  25; 
  

   Waller 
  County, 
  disappearing 
  on 
  April 
  30 
  ; 
  Bastrop 
  County, 
  rapidly 
  disappearing 
  about 
  

   April 
  28 
  ; 
  Hays 
  County, 
  going 
  north 
  about 
  April 
  26 
  ; 
  McLennan 
  County, 
  going 
  north, 
  

   flying 
  high, 
  on 
  May 
  2; 
  Travis 
  County, 
  heavens 
  clouded 
  with 
  them, 
  going 
  north, 
  wind 
  

   south, 
  on 
  May 
  2: 
  Austin 
  County, 
  heavens 
  clouded 
  with 
  them, 
  going 
  north, 
  wind 
  

   south, 
  about 
  April 
  30; 
  Washington 
  County, 
  air 
  full 
  of 
  them, 
  going 
  north, 
  about 
  April 
  

   30 
  ; 
  Bastrop 
  County, 
  moving 
  northward 
  about 
  April 
  30 
  ; 
  Bell 
  County, 
  nearly 
  gone 
  by 
  

   April 
  30 
  ; 
  Fayette 
  County, 
  heavens 
  alive 
  with 
  them, 
  goiug 
  noith, 
  about 
  April 
  30 
  ; 
  Lee 
  

   County, 
  emigrating 
  on 
  May 
  5; 
  Denton 
  Connty, 
  disappearing 
  rapidly 
  about 
  May 
  1 
  ; 
  

   Fayette 
  Couuty, 
  going 
  northward 
  throughout 
  week 
  ending 
  May 
  2 
  ; 
  Leon 
  County, 
  

   rapidly 
  disappearing 
  about 
  May 
  1 
  ; 
  Lampasas 
  County, 
  passing 
  north 
  about 
  May 
  2 
  ; 
  

   Colorado 
  County, 
  emigrating 
  in 
  large 
  numbers 
  about 
  May 
  1 
  ; 
  Caldwell 
  County, 
  myri- 
  

  

  * 
  The 
  following 
  notes 
  -were 
  omitted 
  from 
  the 
  First 
  Report 
  for 
  want 
  of 
  space. 
  They 
  were 
  furnished 
  

   the 
  Commission 
  bv 
  the 
  late 
  Bvt. 
  Brig. 
  Gen. 
  A. 
  J. 
  Myer, 
  U. 
  S. 
  A., 
  Chief 
  Signal 
  Offioer. 
  

  

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