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Pembina, D. T., Aug. 31, 1876.— "No locusts hatched near here, and no 

 eggs now deposited." -W. R. Goodfellow. 



July 8.— "Grasshoppers first observed to-day. They could scarcely be 

 seen with the naked eye, but by using colored eye-glasses they were made 

 plainly visible. They were in great numbers, flying very high, far above 

 cumulus clouds, and in a northeasterly direction." 



July, 9.—" Grasshoppers flying northeast." 



July 11.— "Grasshoppers, flying high, and ^moving southeast, were ob- 

 served in great numbers." 



July 12.—" Grasshoppers still appear moving south-southeast, flying very 

 high; can scarcely be seen with the naked eye." 



July 13.—" Grasshoppers still continue to be seen moving south by east." 



July 17.— " Grasshoppers noted to-day, moving southeast, in greater 

 numbers than heretofore, and flying considerably lower. Noue have as yet 

 alighted." 



July 20.—" Grasshoppers continue to fly over this place, moving from the 

 northwest."— Records of the Signal Observer, J. Kabernagle. 



Grand Forks, Grand Forks county, I). T. (nearly opposite Crookston) 

 Aug. 28, 1876.—" A few locusts were hatched here and flew to the southeast 

 early in July. 



" A few lit on the 9th of July. They came from the north before alight- 

 ing, buton the 8th the same grasshoppers flew north and returned next day, 

 a few alighting, and all left on the 10th, without doing any injury— direction 

 southeast. 



" From the 10th, all through the month of July, when the weather was fine 

 and clear, and the wind from the north or northwest, more or less of them 

 flew over, moving in a southerly or southeasterly direction. But in no in- 

 stance have I seen very heavy clouds of them until the 4th and 5th of 

 August, when I was out on the head waters of the Turtle and Big Sault, 

 from thirty-live to forty miles west and northwest of this place. I saw them 

 moving in a southeasterly direction, in thicker and heavier clouds than I 

 ever before saw grasshoppers flying. On the evening of the 5th it rained, 

 and a considerable portion of them fell, and rose next day, moving in the 

 same direction as before. And, strange to say, they rose without much 

 sunshine, as the day was cloudy, and the sun showed itself only at inter- 

 vals, and that for a !ew minutes at a time. I never saw them move before 

 except upon a clear, sunshiny day, with a wind favorable to the direction in 

 which they wanted to move. None lit near the Bed river at this time. 



" I do not think that any eggs have been laid here by those alighting in July, 

 nor by those alighting on the 5ih of August, west of here thirty-five or forty 

 miles." — Hector Bruce. 



Crookston, Polk Co., Minn., .Sept. 2, 1876— "On July 10th and 11th, swarms 

 of 'hoppers came from the southwest, and lit at Crookston and vicinity, 

 remaining two and a half days, and without doing any damage worth notic- 

 ing; they were pairing. They got up on the third day, and went northeast. 

 Three days later, a large swarm passed over us, going east of southeast, 

 coming from the north. July 31st, a few lit here from the west, but doing 

 no damage. August 10th, a few straggling ones came from the north, until 

 August 15th, when they disappeared, going south." — Ross and Walsh. 



