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2d. From northwest ; gale. 
2b. Clear. 
So. To southeast, part going and part remaining, till they perished by cold and 
starvation. 
Question 3. No eggs deposited. 
Quettion 4. 15th ultimo. 
Question 5. May 10, 1875. 
Question 6. But few failed. 
Question 7. Soil, with a clay tendency and well drained. 
Question 8. Same as above. 
Question 9. 1875, about June 3. Haven't wings the present year. 
Question 1(1. Same as above. 
Question 11. In county, 1874, 125 per cent. ; 1875, 50 per cent. ; 1876, 10 per cent. 
Question 12. 1^74. Corn and vegetables. 
1875. Wheat, barley, and vegetables. 
1876. Corn and vegetables. 
Question 15. They inarch for some field of grain, and stay there until fledged, if 
good picking. 
Question 16. Burning prairie grass, placing straw or hay where thick and burning; 
satisfactory. 
Question 19. Visited in 1876. 
Question 20. 1874, July 26 ; 1875, from 3d till last of June. Also hatched. 
Question 21. Very useful. 
Question 23. Never known any to hatch. 
Question 24. Radishes, cabbage, onions, rhubarb, tansy, wild and tamebuck wheat. 
Question 25. Peas, tomatoes, sweet and Irish potatoes, vines of all kinds. 
Question 26. No damage vet. 
Question 27. Hogs, squirrels (prairie, gray, and striped), chickens, and wild birds of 
different kinds. 
Question 28. Fall plowing. 
Question 29. 98 to 100. 
Question 30. Only saw the grown ones fly up to roost in the evening. The young, 
of a dry evening, crawl up on stubble or weeds cast off by the machine, but of a wet, 
get under shelter. Saw first 'hoppers hatching this year, April 15. (Some of our na- 
tives have been flying a number of days.) A large majority have hatched mostly 
last ten days; they are dying, I think, as fast as they hatch ; cause, wet and cold. 
I find dead ones under stalks and grass where they have sheltered. I find but few 
larger than when firsl hatched. 
T. N. BABBITT. 
Fall City, Richardson County, May 21, 1877. 
Perhaps I ought to state at the beginning that I have lived here on the same 80 
acres of land since the fall of 1865 (nearly twelve years), and have kept a journal all 
the time, so that data I give are not from memory, but from records made when there 
could be no mistake. 
We have seen the locusts come in here five times, and at present the fifth swarm is 
being hatched. The first time we ever saw tbem they came in large numbers from 
the west, on September 7, 1866, and consequently the first hatch here was in the spring 
of 1867 (ten years ago). The season was wet and the eggs hatched late, as they are 
doing now, and I think there were quite as many eggs here then as now. Nearly all 
the wheat, oats, potatoes, and garden vegetables were ruined, except pease, which 
were not injured. The corn, which was thinned out in places by them before they 
left, made a good crop. In 1867 the first swarm that hatched here began leaving on 
June 28, and kept leaving, flying north and northwest, every day, when the 
weather was suitable, so that on the 4th of July but few were left here. 
They came back again from the north in large numbers, but not so many as the 
year before (in the fall of 1H07). In the spring of 1-0- they hatched out early, so that 
they began leaving June 20, but they were not numerous enough to do us any serious 
damage. 
In the fall of 1868 a swarm came back, but smaller than either of the others, and 
our crops suffered but little from the hatch of the spring of 1869. From the time that 
swarm left we were not visited again till August 9, 1874, when the swarm came in 
from the southwest. The eggs laid by them caused a total destruction of crops the 
next spring, and, as a consequence, nearly one-half of the farms in this county are 
mortgaged to-day. 
In 1875 we saw a great many hatched on a south slope on the 19th of April. The 
•weather was dry, and almost every egg seemed to hatch by the latter part of May. 
Almost every farm in the two counties, Nemaha and Richardson, were as bare as in 
mid-winter. After killing 200 apple-trees for me, they began to leave on the 11th of 
June. Then we planted our corn again ; but when it came up it was again destroyed 
by a flying swarm that came down in a shower of rain. We planted our corn the third 
