CHAPTER I. 
ADDITIONS TO THE CHRONOLOGY OF LOCUST RAVAGES. 
THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN LOCUST IN 1878. 
THE LOCUST IN MINNESOTA IN 1878. 
In a letter, dated August 2G, Mr. A. Whitman, of Saint Paul, Minn., 
says: 
I inclose a few more clippings on grasshoppers. I see by the papers that a swarm 
of them alighted at Maukato a few days ago. All these cases seem to he wandering 
squads that make short visits, and they seem to he as much scattered as they were at 
the end of last year. 
The same correspondent writes, November 3, 1878 : 
There seems to have been a slight raid across the southwest corner of the State late 
in the summer. There was nothing to hurt then, and as it lasted hut a few days I 
don't believe there are eggs enough to do any hurt. 
The clippings sent by Mr. Whitman refer to the appearance of the 
Locust in Dakota, and only the following refer to Minnesota : 
We understand that on Monday last, 12th, a pretty numerous swarm of grasshoppers 
settled down in the vicinity of Luverne, and still remained there on Thursday. They 
had not laid eggs at last accounts. — [Maukato Review, Rock County, August 20, 1878. 
Reports from Rock County in this State, and the counties bordering in Dakota, are 
to the effect that the grasshoppers which recently settled down there are laying eggs. 
They occupy a pretty large district, chiefly a locality in which but little damage was 
done during their previous raid. — [Maukato Review, September 3, 1878. 
'Hoppers were seen flying over Big Stone County last week. — [Pioneer Press, Min- 
nesota, August 11, 1878. 
A gentleman who was in Saint Paul yesterday, from Nobles County, reported the 
unusual prevalence of grasshoppers in that county. He says that they are consuming 
the com and almost everything to be consumed, and doing a good deal of devastation. 
— [Pioneer Press, September 11. [Nothing to devastate. — A. W.~\ 
THE LOCUST IN IOWA IN 1878. 
The grasshoppers have hatched out in the vicinity of Red Oak, 20 miles east of here, 
in large numbers, but are doing no damage worth mentioning. They seem to be dis- 
eased and are only in a small locality about 20 miles square. They are the only ones 
that I have heard from in the Northwest this spring. — [W. K. Jollett, Malvern, Iowa. 
Fort Dodge, Iowa, September 5. — A few days ago the people of Northwestern Iowa 
■were somewhat alarmed by a report that the grasshoppers were again upon us. Upon 
inquiry we find the fact to be that they alighted one evening somewhere between 
Cherokee and Le Mars, densely covering a tract of country three or four miles wide. 
They took wing again early on the following day, and left without doing serious injury 
to anything, and without depositing any eggs. They came from the Northwest and 
went toward the Southwest.— [Chicago Tribune. 
The Rocky Mountain News, of October 30, 1878, reports the locusts in- 
juring fall wheat lately sown at Fort Madison, September 30. 
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