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relative positions, the Garter was immediately disgorged, and both an- 

 imals attempted to escape. They have since been placed in a box 

 where they remain amicably together. 



Careful measurements show the length of the Chain snake to be 2 7 

 inches, with a maximum circumference of i^ inches, while the Garter 

 was but four inches shorter, with a girth of 2^ inches, being an inch 

 greater than that of its successful antagonist. — 'James P. Stabler, San- 

 dy Spring, Aid. 



Grasshoppers Again Troublesome in Minnesota. — The grass- 

 hoppers have again destroyed everything in this district, but six miles 

 south of here seems to have been their Southern limit.' Old residents 

 of this State say that before the 'hoppers visited us one week ago, we 

 had, in this section of the country, the appearance of the best grain 

 crop ever known in the State, 



Since the 'hoppers left, two days ago, we have been making exam- 

 inations, and find the vast number of eggs deposited by them are being 

 destroyed by a white worm, many of the cells being empty. We also 

 found vast numbers of the grasshoppers themselves were being destroy- 

 ed by a white maggot, y^ to y^ inch in length, working in their bod- 

 ies. One singular fact in connection with their late visitation is that 

 although remaining with us eight days, they did more damage in four 

 hours, on the last day, than in all the rest of the time put together. — 

 E. F. Jackson, Graham Lakes, Nobles Co., Minn., July jist. 



On the loth instant the grasshoppers made another incursion into 

 this county in greater numbers than ever before, and since that date 

 have been gradually extending their area, until the old devastated dis- 

 trict is threatened with destruction, The ground is completely filled 

 with eggs, and even the streets are full. More eggs than ever before 

 are in our soil and still more are being deposited, and our greatest fear 

 is that the eggs will hatch next Spring, in which event there will be 

 'hoppers enough to devastate the whole State.- — E. C. Huntington, 

 Windoni, Cottonwood Co., Minn., July 26th, 7^75. 



Mr. Joseph A. Whitman, of Providence, Rhode Island, is manufac- 

 turing a little apparatus known as the Fountain Pump, which is a very 

 useful thing in all kinds of insect warfare, where solutions are fo be ap- 

 plied. We have experimented with it, and find it does its work in a 

 very satisfactorj^maiiTrer. 



