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  REPORT 
  UNITED 
  STATES 
  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
  COMMISSION. 
  

  

  Tlie 
  war 
  locust 
  is 
  being 
  seen 
  tliis 
  season 
  in 
  small 
  numbers 
  on 
  the 
  mountains 
  about 
  

   Frisco. 
  

  

  Very 
  respectfully, 
  

  

  E. 
  E. 
  WOOD, 
  

   Assistant 
  Editor 
  Chicago 
  Evening 
  Journal. 
  

   Prof. 
  A. 
  S. 
  Packard, 
  Jr. 
  

  

  Grinnell, 
  Poweshiek 
  County, 
  Iowa, 
  

  

  Octolei^ 
  4, 
  1880. 
  

   My 
  Dear 
  Sir 
  : 
  A 
  short 
  time 
  ago 
  I 
  received 
  a 
  letter, 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  delayed, 
  from 
  

   a 
  friend 
  in 
  Kanosh, 
  Millard 
  County, 
  Utah. 
  He 
  reports 
  as 
  follows: 
  

  

  ''1st. 
  The 
  grasshoppers 
  have 
  laid 
  their 
  eggs 
  in 
  this 
  locality 
  for 
  two 
  years, 
  about 
  the 
  

   middle 
  of 
  August. 
  

  

  "2d. 
  They 
  have 
  done 
  most 
  damage 
  to 
  barley 
  and 
  wheat. 
  

   ''3d. 
  The 
  young 
  seem 
  to 
  travel 
  east. 
  

  

  "4th. 
  The 
  young 
  receive 
  their 
  wings 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  June. 
  

   "5th. 
  The 
  old 
  ones 
  remain 
  and 
  lay 
  their 
  eggs 
  here. 
  They 
  are 
  depositing 
  eggs 
  now, 
  

   August 
  29. 
  

  

  "6th. 
  Various 
  plans 
  have 
  been 
  tried 
  to 
  destroy 
  them, 
  but 
  failed. 
  We 
  think 
  the 
  

   best 
  is 
  to 
  plow 
  and 
  harrow 
  the 
  land, 
  and 
  if 
  any 
  young 
  hatch 
  out, 
  take 
  all 
  available 
  

   chickens 
  to 
  pick 
  them. 
  In 
  this 
  way 
  a 
  great 
  many 
  have 
  been 
  destroyed 
  already, 
  but 
  

   they 
  are 
  so 
  numerous 
  that 
  many 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  fields 
  have 
  been 
  completely 
  stripped." 
  

   This 
  letter 
  was 
  written 
  August 
  29. 
  Before 
  leaving 
  Salt 
  Lake 
  I 
  met 
  with 
  a 
  friend 
  

   who 
  had 
  seen 
  the 
  'hoppers 
  at 
  Kanosh, 
  and 
  from 
  his 
  description 
  of 
  them 
  I 
  think 
  that 
  

   they 
  are 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  species 
  as 
  those 
  I 
  sent 
  you. 
  He 
  also 
  stated 
  that 
  he 
  met 
  a 
  man 
  in 
  

   Kanosh 
  who 
  had 
  lost 
  10 
  acres 
  of 
  grain. 
  

   Very 
  respectfully, 
  

  

  OR. 
  HOWARD. 
  

  

  THE 
  ROCKY 
  MOUNTAIN 
  LOCUST 
  IN 
  1881. 
  

  

  All 
  our 
  information 
  this 
  year 
  concerning 
  flights 
  and 
  solitary 
  appear- 
  

   ances 
  of 
  locusts 
  in 
  the 
  Eocky 
  Mountain 
  region 
  is 
  embodied 
  in 
  the 
  fol- 
  

   lowing 
  chapter^ 
  by 
  Mr. 
  L. 
  Bruner, 
  containing 
  a 
  report 
  of 
  his 
  observa- 
  

   tions 
  for 
  1881. 
  The 
  two 
  maps 
  for 
  1880 
  and 
  1881 
  will 
  give 
  the 
  main 
  facts 
  

   in 
  graj)hic 
  form. 
  

  

  THE 
  LOCUST 
  IN 
  TEXAS 
  IN 
  1881. 
  

  

  We 
  could 
  not 
  learn 
  that 
  any 
  locusts 
  were 
  hatching 
  out 
  in 
  the 
  State, 
  

   except 
  at 
  one 
  point, 
  as 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  we 
  passed 
  through 
  Texas, 
  April 
  1-7, 
  

   the 
  season 
  had 
  been 
  remarkably 
  cold 
  and 
  backward, 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  early 
  

   for 
  them 
  to 
  appear. 
  At 
  Eastland, 
  however, 
  we 
  saw 
  a 
  man 
  who 
  had 
  

   come 
  the 
  day 
  before 
  from 
  Abilene, 
  on 
  the 
  Texas 
  and 
  Pacific 
  Eailroad, 
  

   who 
  informed 
  us 
  that 
  the 
  locusts 
  were 
  hatching 
  out 
  at 
  a 
  locality 
  10 
  to 
  

   20 
  miles 
  west 
  of 
  Eastland, 
  and 
  that 
  in 
  one 
  place 
  he 
  observed 
  them 
  thick 
  

   upon 
  the 
  ground. 
  This 
  would 
  indicate 
  that 
  aT 
  scattering 
  swarm 
  laid 
  

   their 
  eggs 
  near 
  Eastland 
  last 
  autumn. 
  

  

  While, 
  therefore, 
  no 
  damage 
  was 
  done 
  in 
  Texas 
  in 
  1880 
  and 
  1881, 
  the 
  

   locust 
  is 
  indigenous 
  to 
  the 
  j^lains 
  lying 
  in 
  the 
  northwestern 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  

   State, 
  and 
  from 
  this 
  region 
  every 
  year 
  light 
  scattering 
  swarms 
  are 
  car- 
  

   ried 
  eastward 
  and 
  southward 
  into 
  the 
  inhabited 
  lower 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  

   State. 
  But 
  it 
  is 
  only 
  in 
  excex)tional 
  and 
  very 
  infrequent 
  seasons 
  that 
  

   the 
  locust 
  will 
  ever 
  swarm 
  into 
  the 
  State 
  in 
  destructive 
  numbers. 
  

  

  The 
  facts 
  we 
  learned 
  and 
  the 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  we 
  obtained, 
  

  

  