﻿EXTERMINATION 
  OF 
  LOCUSTS 
  IN 
  CHINA. 
  [65] 
  

  

  in 
  this 
  way. 
  Upwards 
  of 
  5,000 
  men 
  were 
  daily 
  employed 
  in 
  the 
  work 
  

   of 
  extirpation, 
  fully 
  8,000 
  kilograms 
  of 
  locusts 
  being 
  gathered 
  every 
  day. 
  

   On 
  the 
  road 
  from 
  Tiflis 
  to 
  Poti 
  the 
  locusts 
  lay 
  so 
  thick 
  on 
  the 
  line 
  that 
  

   the 
  trains 
  were 
  obstructed. 
  The 
  Yedomosti 
  says 
  that 
  the 
  steppes 
  of 
  the 
  

   Don 
  have 
  been 
  swept 
  bare 
  of 
  all 
  vegetation, 
  as 
  if 
  a 
  fire 
  had 
  passed 
  over 
  

   the 
  land. 
  Fourteen 
  companies 
  of 
  soldiers 
  are 
  employed 
  in 
  the 
  Odessa 
  

   district 
  in 
  destroying 
  these 
  insect 
  plagues. 
  A 
  huge 
  swarm 
  passed 
  by 
  

   Moscow 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  June, 
  at 
  an 
  elevation 
  of 
  from 
  70 
  to 
  100 
  feet. 
  

  

  Locusts 
  in 
  China 
  in 
  1878. 
  

  

  While 
  in 
  past 
  centuries 
  this 
  thickly 
  settled 
  country 
  has 
  been 
  rav- 
  

   aged 
  by 
  locusts, 
  as 
  shown 
  in 
  our 
  first 
  report 
  (p. 
  477), 
  it 
  appears 
  that 
  

   they 
  still 
  abound, 
  notwithstanding 
  the 
  dense 
  population, 
  though 
  they 
  

   apparently 
  breed 
  in 
  desert 
  places 
  and 
  invade 
  the 
  more 
  populous 
  areas. 
  

   It 
  appears 
  by 
  the 
  following 
  extract 
  from 
  a 
  Chinese 
  (English) 
  newspaper 
  

   tliat 
  locusts 
  abounded 
  in 
  great 
  numbers 
  in 
  eastern 
  China 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  

   Yangtsze 
  Kiver, 
  and 
  it 
  likewise 
  appears 
  that 
  the 
  natives 
  initiated 
  the 
  

   use 
  of 
  oil 
  on 
  streams 
  and 
  likewise 
  scattered 
  over 
  dry 
  fields, 
  and 
  found 
  

   it 
  to 
  be 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  best 
  means 
  of 
  killing 
  these 
  pests. 
  It 
  thus 
  appears 
  

   that 
  the 
  Chinese, 
  when 
  hard 
  put 
  to 
  it, 
  can 
  take 
  up 
  and 
  put 
  into 
  practice 
  

   new 
  remedies. 
  From 
  the 
  second 
  account 
  of 
  Chinese 
  methods 
  of 
  exter- 
  

   miuating 
  locusts, 
  by 
  a 
  foreigner, 
  Mr. 
  K. 
  Scatchkow, 
  for 
  many 
  years- 
  

   resident 
  in 
  China, 
  it 
  appears 
  that 
  locusts 
  periodically 
  ravaged 
  the 
  coun- 
  

   try 
  5 
  though 
  whether 
  the 
  same 
  region 
  or 
  not, 
  does 
  not 
  appear. 
  We 
  re- 
  

   I)rint 
  these 
  interesting 
  statements, 
  being 
  of 
  very 
  general 
  interest: 
  

  

  Locusts 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  Yangtsze. 
  — 
  Major 
  Yao 
  Las 
  received 
  from 
  Brigadier 
  Fan 
  a 
  proc— 
  

   Ian 
  ation 
  issued 
  by 
  the 
  Viceroy 
  Slien 
  to 
  the 
  effect 
  that 
  last 
  year 
  flying 
  locusts 
  covered 
  

   the 
  countryside, 
  leaving 
  behind 
  innumerable 
  grubs 
  which 
  soldiery 
  and 
  local 
  officials 
  

   were 
  then 
  instructed 
  to 
  search 
  for 
  and 
  dig 
  up. 
  From 
  that 
  time 
  up 
  to 
  the 
  present 
  over 
  

   two 
  millions 
  catties 
  have 
  been 
  brought 
  in, 
  thus 
  proving 
  there 
  has 
  been 
  no 
  lack 
  of 
  

   energy 
  in 
  obeying 
  the 
  orders 
  given, 
  nor 
  any 
  deficiency 
  in 
  the 
  numbers 
  given 
  up. 
  Re- 
  

   ports 
  are 
  now 
  crowding 
  in 
  that 
  locust 
  grubs 
  are 
  springing 
  up 
  like 
  ants 
  and 
  flies 
  alL 
  

   over 
  the 
  countryside, 
  tliat 
  they 
  are 
  big 
  enough 
  to 
  hop 
  about 
  and 
  will 
  in 
  the 
  twink- 
  

   ling 
  of 
  an 
  eye 
  have 
  wings 
  and 
  commit 
  unutterable 
  harm. 
  Mr. 
  Brigadier 
  Woo 
  haa- 
  

   now 
  discovered 
  in 
  course 
  of 
  his 
  literary 
  researches 
  that 
  locusts 
  have 
  an 
  instinctive 
  

   dread 
  of 
  oil. 
  He 
  has 
  therefore 
  instructed 
  his 
  braves 
  to 
  mix 
  a 
  picul 
  of 
  oil 
  with 
  water 
  

   and 
  scatter 
  it 
  over 
  locust-infested 
  fields, 
  whereby 
  the 
  insects 
  would 
  be 
  killed. 
  In* 
  

   fields 
  where 
  the 
  rice 
  is 
  just 
  sprouting, 
  the 
  oil 
  floating 
  on 
  the 
  water 
  will 
  prevent 
  thei 
  

   descent 
  of 
  the 
  locusts. 
  Oil 
  from 
  the 
  Elceococca 
  tree, 
  however, 
  is 
  injurious 
  to 
  the 
  crops,, 
  

   and 
  should 
  not 
  be 
  used, 
  but 
  every 
  other 
  kind 
  of 
  oil 
  is 
  equally 
  destructive 
  to 
  locusts, 
  

   hemp 
  oil 
  being 
  the 
  best. 
  The 
  Viceroy 
  has 
  noticed, 
  too, 
  in 
  a 
  certain 
  work, 
  that 
  lo- 
  

   custs 
  dread 
  oil, 
  and 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  best 
  preservative 
  for 
  the 
  crops. 
  Facts 
  like 
  these 
  

   about 
  oil 
  cannot 
  be 
  too 
  widely 
  known, 
  in 
  order 
  that 
  men 
  by 
  their 
  personal 
  efforts 
  may 
  

   second 
  the 
  desire 
  of 
  Heaven 
  for 
  harmony 
  (aide 
  toi). 
  — 
  [North 
  China 
  Daily 
  News.] 
  

  

  THE 
  EXTERMINATION 
  OF 
  THE 
  LOCUST 
  IN 
  CHINA. 
  

  

  In 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  scientific 
  meetings 
  of 
  our 
  Entomological 
  Society 
  the 
  question 
  of 
  the 
  

   calamities 
  from 
  locusts, 
  and 
  the 
  different 
  ways 
  of 
  exterminating 
  this 
  insect, 
  have 
  been 
  

   discussed. 
  But 
  I 
  think 
  that 
  our 
  entomologists 
  do 
  not 
  yet 
  know 
  the 
  Chinese 
  way 
  of 
  

   this 
  extermination. 
  Wishing 
  to 
  fill 
  up 
  this 
  deficiency, 
  I 
  have 
  hunted 
  up 
  in 
  the 
  large 
  

   Chinese 
  bibliography 
  Sy-koo-zuan-shoo-moo-Eoo 
  nearly 
  all 
  the 
  names 
  of 
  works 
  con- 
  

   nected 
  in 
  any 
  way 
  with 
  this 
  question, 
  but 
  have 
  found 
  onlj'^ 
  three 
  which 
  have 
  entered 
  

   more 
  or 
  less 
  into 
  particulars: 
  (1) 
  Zsu-hooan-ho-rain-book 
  about 
  salvation 
  from 
  starva- 
  

   tion, 
  written 
  by 
  Doon-vey 
  at 
  about 
  1100 
  after 
  Christ, 
  and 
  soon 
  afterwards 
  corrected 
  by 
  

   Van-bin. 
  (2) 
  Zsu-hooan-ho-miu-shoo-boo-ee-book 
  about 
  salvation 
  from 
  starvation, 
  

   corrected 
  and 
  amplified 
  ; 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  written 
  in 
  1442 
  by 
  the 
  learned 
  Tjoo-soou-vey-zsy, 
  

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  AP 
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