﻿CHAPTER 
  L 
  

  

  ADDITIONS 
  TO 
  THE 
  CHKONOLOGY 
  OF 
  LOCUST 
  EAYAGES. 
  

  

  THE 
  ROCKY 
  MOUNTAIN 
  LOCUST 
  IN 
  1880 
  AND 
  1881. 
  

  

  This 
  chapter 
  is 
  in 
  continuation 
  of 
  a 
  similar 
  one 
  in 
  our 
  second 
  report. 
  

   The 
  reader 
  is 
  referred 
  to 
  a 
  succeeding 
  chapter 
  for 
  data 
  regarding 
  the 
  

   locust 
  in 
  Montana 
  and 
  adjoining 
  regions, 
  and 
  also 
  for 
  Nebraska, 
  where 
  

   special 
  observations 
  were 
  made 
  by 
  our 
  assistants 
  in 
  the 
  field. 
  As 
  will 
  be 
  

   seen, 
  the 
  locust 
  committed 
  only 
  local 
  ravages, 
  and 
  these 
  in 
  rare 
  cases, 
  

   this 
  year. 
  The 
  distribution 
  of 
  the 
  scattered, 
  thin 
  swarms 
  was 
  pretty 
  

   much 
  as 
  in 
  1879. 
  

  

  THE 
  LOCUST 
  IN 
  TEXAS 
  IN 
  1880. 
  

  

  "While 
  no 
  locusts 
  were 
  reported 
  in 
  this 
  State 
  in 
  1878 
  (see 
  our 
  second 
  

   report, 
  p. 
  2), 
  swarms 
  of 
  locusts 
  were 
  reported 
  May 
  17, 
  1879, 
  at 
  Dallas. 
  

   In 
  the 
  autumn 
  of 
  1880 
  large 
  swarms 
  flew 
  into 
  the 
  region 
  of 
  Jacks- 
  

   boro, 
  as 
  will 
  be 
  seen 
  by 
  the 
  following 
  extract 
  from 
  the 
  daily 
  papers 
  : 
  

  

  In 
  Jacksboro, 
  Tex., 
  yesterday, 
  immense 
  swarms 
  of 
  grasshoppers 
  appeared, 
  coming 
  

   from 
  the 
  north, 
  at 
  times 
  obscuring 
  the 
  sun. 
  A 
  farm 
  near 
  here 
  is 
  completely 
  demolished, 
  

   even 
  the 
  cotton 
  stalks 
  being 
  devoured. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Henry 
  Boll, 
  of 
  Dallas, 
  corroborated 
  to 
  us 
  this 
  statement, 
  stating 
  

   that 
  at 
  a 
  point 
  17 
  miles 
  northwest 
  of 
  Jacksboro 
  they 
  flew 
  into 
  Lost 
  

   Valley 
  late 
  in 
  September, 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  ground 
  was 
  literally 
  covered 
  with 
  

   them. 
  He 
  also 
  saw 
  them 
  quite 
  numerously 
  in 
  China 
  Creek, 
  Wichita 
  

   County, 
  near 
  Wagner's 
  ranch, 
  in 
  October. 
  A 
  few 
  were 
  also 
  seen 
  in 
  the 
  

   air 
  passing 
  over 
  Dallas, 
  October 
  20-25, 
  1880. 
  They 
  hatch 
  out 
  early 
  in 
  

   April 
  at 
  Dallas, 
  '' 
  when 
  the 
  plover 
  are 
  here 
  to 
  feed 
  on 
  them." 
  The 
  

   swarms 
  usually 
  arrive 
  early 
  in 
  October, 
  and 
  are 
  apt 
  to 
  injure 
  the 
  new 
  

   winter 
  wheat. 
  

  

  During 
  our 
  trip 
  to 
  Texas, 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1881, 
  we 
  obtained 
  the 
  follow- 
  

   ing 
  additional 
  information. 
  At 
  a 
  region 
  thirty 
  or 
  forty 
  miles 
  west 
  of 
  

   Corsicana 
  the 
  locusts 
  flew 
  in 
  from 
  the 
  north, 
  in 
  October, 
  1880, 
  and 
  laid 
  

   eggs, 
  but 
  none 
  had 
  hatched 
  April 
  3, 
  the 
  date 
  of 
  our 
  visit. 
  We 
  were 
  

   told 
  that 
  the 
  locusts 
  had 
  visited 
  Corsicana 
  itself 
  twice 
  only 
  within 
  

   eighteen 
  years, 
  and 
  then 
  they 
  came 
  too 
  late 
  to 
  do 
  any 
  harm, 
  the 
  young 
  

   i 
  I 
  the 
  spring 
  appearing 
  in 
  scattered 
  swarms. 
  

  

  Into 
  Tarrant 
  County 
  locusts 
  flew 
  the 
  last 
  of 
  September, 
  1880, 
  but 
  in 
  

   small 
  numbers. 
  

  

  At 
  Eastland, 
  the 
  last 
  appearance 
  of 
  locusts 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  autumn 
  of 
  

  

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