* APPENDIX 1. — MINNESOTA DATA, 1877. 
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Eggs are deposited in many places where plowing is impracticable, and hence where 
the 'hoppers hatch out numerously in such places, unless destroyed, they will travel 
to and destroy crops. It is difficult to say here what crops or vegetation they prefer, 
as when here in 1875 they ate everything about clean as they went, except prairie 
grass and forest tree leaves. They are bound to eat and live even if they have to be- 
come cannibals. In this section they ate last fall all the early fall sowing of grain and 
grass seed. 
C. C. SMITH. 
Pleasant Home, Polk County, August 11, 1877. 
The grasshoppers are flying in the air to-day, and have been for the last eight or 
ten days. They are not traveling in any particular direction, sometimes north, some- 
times south, just whichever direction the wind is blowing. A good many alighted in 
my wheat field yesterday, and commenced cutting the heads off the wheat ; they 
have not done any damage to amount to anything. The air has been full of them, 
but they have not traveled in swarms as they did last summer. 
W. W. ELLIOTT. 
G. M. Dodges record of locust flights in Nebraska in lb77. 
Glencoe, Dodge County, Nebraska. 
June 22. — Spretus has done little injury yet. During the last week a large number of 
the insects have pupated. The young appear to be moving north. 
June 14. — Wind southwest; clear day ; many grasshoppers flying, and some alight- 
ing ; flying with the wind as they invariably do here. 
June 16, 17. — Wind southwest and grasshoppers flying; few alighted. 
June 22. — Wind southeast : grasshoppers flying ; few or none alighted. Native grass- 
hoppers (Cal. minor Lc. and Gomph. clepsydra Lc. ) are just getting their wings; being 
ahead of C. spretus, but behind their usual season. 
July 15, 18, 21. — Flying southwest abundantly ; some alighted. 
August 2. — Flying southwest; wind changed and they alighted, but were only 
thick on small areas. 
August b. — Wind light from northwest; spretus flying over and alighting; wind 
freshened in afternoon, and the new arrivals and those of August 2 all left. 
August 7. — Clear. Flying southeast all day. 
August 9. — Flying a steady stream all day southwest ; some alighted. 
August 11. — Flying southeast; arrivals of the 9th mostly left. 
August 12. — Some flying northwest. 
August 14, 15. — Flying southeast in great abundance. 
August 16. — Flying abundantly southwest. 
DATA FOR MINNESOTA. 
Marshfield, Lincoln County, August 4, 1877. 
Invariably since last communication, when the wind was in the east, north, or west, 
locusts have been flying over. The heaviest swarms when the wind was north, none 
flying with wind south or southwest, their general course to the southeast ; none seen 
on the wing till about 11 o'clock a. m. ; continue flying till sundown, how much longer 
impossible to tell. 
Our county has suffered less from locusts than counties further east. Only one year 
in the last sis have they deposited any eggs with us (last summer), and then but few. 
We have suffered most from migratory swarms. Perhaps this may be the reason : Our 
county is on the "dividing ridge" between the Mississippi and Missouri, nearly 2,000 
feet above sea level, and is rather wet, nearly one-quarter of the area being lakes and 
meadow. Altogether a country for stock raising. The upland prairie this season cov- 
ered with a blue joint grass nearly two feet high ; soil black, sticky. 
Two or three days the locusts alighted in large numbers in places a few rods across, 
perhaps i to 1 mile apart, seemed eicklv, covered with red parasites. 
M. L. WOOD. 
[The following record of flights from Worthington, Nobles County, Minnesota, has 
teen furnished us by Lieut. R. B. Platts, U. S. N.] 
1877. 
July 1. — High up is quite a flight going west and northwest on a southeast wind. 
Wind hauled from northeast since 9 a. m. Yesterday wind was very strong, a gale 
