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departure was unnoticed. Eggs were laid only in scattering spots, after 

 August 1st. They left before the egg-laying was finished."— D. Wilmot 

 Smith. 



Sisseton Agency, D. T., (opposite Big Stone Co., Minn.,) Aug. 12, 1876.- - 

 " In the upper portions of the Reservation, twenty-five miles north of the 

 Agency, a small quantity of grasshoppers were hatched, in the latter part of 

 May, and destroyed several grain fields and gardens. At diil'erent times in 

 the month of July, we saw them flying over, sometimes in large numbers. 

 Only a few straggliug ones came down. The direction has generally been 

 from a point south of southwest. 



" On Sabbath, the 30th of July, we had a visitation all over the Reserve. 

 They came down like snowflakes in winter, and covered the earth. Garden 

 vegetables, especially beans and onions, were eaten up to the roots. Corn 

 was pretty much destroyed, and potatoes and oats were very much damaged. 

 The wheat was generally ripe, and but little eaten. They commenced leav- 

 ing about twenty-four hours after they came, but it was the last of the week 

 before we were free from them. They left on the same line on which they 

 came, going towards the northeast or east of northeast. They were prob- 

 ably the same that have lately visited Herman and Morris, on the St Paul & 

 Pacific Railroad. I understand they were quite as thick to the west of us, 

 twenty miles, as here." — Rev. S. R. Riggs. 



[These swarms appear to have reached Ortouville, Big Stone 

 county, about the first, Herman on the third, and Morris on the 

 fifth of August. They came eastward from the James river. The 

 settlers along the James river state that no locusts were hatched 

 there, and that all that appeared there during the season came 

 from the northwest.] 



Gary, Dknbl Co., D. T., (Opposite Yellow Medicine Co., Minn.j Dec. 8th, 

 1870. " No locusts were hatched in this county last spring. The first flying 

 swarm appeared in the latter part of June, flying northwest and did not 

 alight. July 20 a very large swarm came from the southwest and went 

 northeast; a few stopped and remained about 24 hours. 



M August 15, they flew very thick, the largest swarm I ever saw. They 

 <iame from the northwest and flew southeast. This swarm, as near as I can 

 learn, was about 20 miles wide. [This probably furnished a portion of the 

 swarms which reached Le Sueur, Mankato, and other points to the east 

 and southeast on the 18th of August.] August 19th a swarm flew from 

 north to south. August 24th a small swarm passed from northwest to 

 southeast ; and again in the same direction on the the 30th of August. On 

 September 4th, oth, 7th, and 9th small and scattering squads flew over to 

 the southeast."— II. H. Merrick. 



Medary, Brookings Co., D. T., (opposite Lincoln Co., Minn.,) August 30, 

 187G. — "The hoppers hatched last spring in this county and the northern 

 half of Moody county. These became fully developed from the 25th of 



