10 REPORT UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN LOCUST IN 1879. 
THE LOCUST TN NEBRASKA IX 1879. 
From a communication dated June 14, from Mr. John Tannaliill, Co- 
lumbus, Platte County, Nebr., we learn that the young grasshoppers are 
doing some damage in the gardens; that they are still working farther 
north of Columbus, and that they extend into Madison County, where 
they destroyed large fields of grain. 
Norfolk, Madison County, June 8. — In this valley, for a radius of six miles wide 
and twenty-five long, "the 'hoppers'' are making a clean sweep of small grain. At 
present the wheat f is half destroyed and going hy degrees from the ravages of the 
grasshoppers. Oats are not damaged as much as wheat. Wheat ground is being 
plowed up and put into corn. " Crop prospects" growing beautifully less. 
Mr. G. M. Dodge, of Glencoe, Xebr., writes, on May 19, as follows: 
C. spretuv has been hatching abundantly (in localities that were hard and bare last 
fall) from May 5 until date. Of course they do not yet appear to do much damage. 
I saw many young ones on the l*th on prairie land that was burned over on the 17th. 
The weather has been very dry all spring, with slight showers lately. 
Norfolk, Madison County, May 23. — Young grasshoppers have made most fearful 
work in this region. Farmers are plowing up their wheat fields and planting corn. 
In some cases, wheat, rye, and barley all gone. They have not injured oats much, but 
are going for the early corn. — [Chicago Tribune. 
Chicago, Jinn «;. — Within the last three weeks I have seen spring-wheat ruined by- 
grasshoppers in Nebraska and Dakota, and the ruined wheat plowed up. Such is the 
case west of Lincolu and Schuyler, in Nebraska. These facts are kept quiet in those 
States, for fear they will check immigration. No State newspapers have mentioned, or 
will mention, such casualties. — [Chicago Tribune. 
THE LOCUST IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY IN 1879. 
There are no spretiiz here, I think. — [H. K. Morrison, Kalama, Wash. T., May 13, 1879. 
THE LOCUST IN DAKOTA IN 1879. 
Riverside, Clay County, May 16. — The drought has injured our wheat badly. 
Prospect for a crop very poor. The grasshoppers commenced hatching the 11th of 
April. The grain grows so slowly that they are eating off large areas of it. Grass just 
coming through the ground since the rains. — [Chicago Tribune. 
Sioux Falls. Minnehaha County, May 18 — Have had a splendid rain. Weather 
cool and prospect favorable for wheat. There are a few grasshoppers here ; doing 
very little damage. — [Chicago Tribune. 
Vermillion, Clay County, May 23. — The spring wheat is badly damaged by grass- 
hoppers. The outlook now quite gloomy for all crops. — [Chicago Tribune. 
THE LOCUST IX TEXAS IN 1879. 
Dallas, Tex., May 17. — Locusts are swarming two miles below here, on Trinity 
River. — [Chicago Tribune. 
THE LOCUST IN COLORADO IN 1879. 
Locusts were seen by us July 30 on Pike's Peak above timber line, in 
much the same situation and abundance as observed in 1878 on Gray's 
Peak. Noue, however, were seen, either this year or last, flying over the 
