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yond the point reached. Not having the authority to proceed, T was 
unable to determine the exact boundary of this region ; but from what 
I was able to learn through inquiry among the intelligent inhabitants, 
it was surmised that at least one-half of the province was to be in- 
cluded within that boundary. Of course I do not wish to be understood 
that every portion of the territory thus included was covered by the 
pest, for such was not the case. The hoppers occurred in spots in 
Manitoba just as they did in Minnesota and North Dakota. I found 
that this region contained the following species of locusts in hurtful 
numbers : the Rocky Mountain or true Migratory (MelanopUis spretus), 
the Lesser Migratory [Melanoplus atlanis), the Two-striped Locust (Me- 
lanoplus Mvittatus), and the Pellucid Locust (Camnula pellucida). 
Further inquiry resulted in showing that the Eocky Mountain species 
had entered North Dakota during the previous fall from the northwest, 
dropping into the State at a point just east of the Turtle Mountains, 
and leaving the first batch of eggs near the town of Oando in Tower 
County. From here they evidently passed eastward and a little to the 
south, leaving eggs at various points along the route wherever the con- 
ditions were favorable. 
It is quite probable that these locusts which entered the country last 
fall were those that had hatche I in spring in the vicinity of Eegina 
and disappeared from that region in a southeasterly direction after be- 
coming fledged. Should this be the case, there are now no other 
swarms of this particular locust in the United States and British 
America that we know of, nor does the species appear to be even com- 
mon in other localities j hence the importance of extra efforts on the 
part of all interested parties at this particular time to stamp out the 
pest where it occurs at present. We can easily afford to be without it, 
for, as the succeeding pages will show, we have plenty of other locusts 
that are apt to occupy our attention during almost any year in the 
future. That any of these destructive locusts can be successfully fought 
and their injuries prevented has been pretty well demonstrated time 
and again. At no time, however, has this been so plainly shown as 
during the past spring and summer in this very region in question. 
This comparative ease with which the insect was handled here is chiefly 
due to its habit of egg-laying varying somewhat in the Eed River Val- 
ley from what it is known to be in other parts of the country where it 
has been studied. 
The attached reports of Messrs. Lugger and Waldron, who have been 
in the region and who had under their direction nearly all of the war- 
fare already mentioned, will best serve to show the modus operandi 
followed and the results secured. Careful estimates have been made 
as to the actual benefits to be derived from fighting these destructive 
grasshoppers, and the figures obtained are really surprising. It is 
supposed that at least calculation 20,000 acres of wheat alone were 
saved which otherwise would have been destroyed by the locusts that 
