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trees were untouched. It was reported to me thai the locusts had also 
injured cabbages, tomatoes, and alfalfa. I noticed that tin- rank gp 
growing in wet places adjacent to the defoliated ti . ao evidence 
of having been attacked by the locusts, nor did I see any of them upon 
it. In the trees I found a few specimens of adult- of the Devastating 
Locust (Melanoplua devastator Scudd.), but did not find any of their 
larvae or pups. I was informed that nothing had been done to destroy 
the locusts or to protect the trees and plants from their rai cepl 
by the use of barnyard fowls, or by occasionally driving the locusts out 
of the trees and killing them with shovels or other instruments. 
I also visited theBuhach plantation, where the locusts were so abun- 
dant in the year 1885, but learned from the foreman, Mr. Davis, that 
they had not appeared in large numbers the present season, and what 
few had appeared were destroyed by the use of the bran and arsenic 
mixture above referred to. A drive over this and neighboring ranches 
failed to disclose any injury to trees or plants that had been occasioned 
by locusts the present season. 
From Merced I proceeded to Sacramento, and on the way, after cross- 
ing the Merced River near Livingston, we encountered quite large flocks 
of the Yellow Locust {Trimerotropis pseudofaseiata Scudd.); and this 
continued, but in smaller numbers, until we reached the Tuolumne 
Biver near Modesto. Xext to the Devastating Locust, this species was 
the most abundant in Merced County in the summer of 1883, and was 
especially injurious to the leaves of grapevines and small trees. In 
the present locality are immense grain-fields stretching away as far as 
the eye can reach, dotted here and there with a farmhouse surrounded 
by a few trees and grapevines; still I could not discover that any of 
these trees or vines had been injured by the locusts. 
Arriving at Sacramento, I interviewed Mr. McClatchie, one of the 
editors of the Sacramento Bee, and learned from him that the locusts 
were very numerous in the eastern portion of Sacramento County. 
Accordingly 1 went out to Folsom, where I spent three days investigat- 
ing this subject. In the town of Folsom very little damage had been 
done by the Locusts the present season: in fact, I saw only one orchard 
that gave evidence of having been visited by them. To the northeasl 
of Folsom are large vineyards and several orchards of deciduous fruit 
trees, but none of these gave any evidence of having been attacked to 
any great extent by locusts the present season, nor could I learn that 
the locusts had been there in large numbers. 
These vineyards and orchards are located in the foothills and are 
surrounded on every side by trees and small bushes. 
I went as far eastward as Shingle Springs, in Eldorado County, but 
could not learn that t he locusts had been very numerous the present 
season in any portion of this county. West of Folsom an- several hun- 
dred acres of vineyard and orchards that had been attacked by the 
locusts the present season ; and in one of the vineyards I found the De- 
