. A new centennial history of the State of Kansas [microform] : being a full and complete civil, political, and military history of the state from its earliest settlement to the present time. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 570 Trrruc's History OF offendea Deity. Tliey covered the whole hirul in Egypt so that the carlli \;'darkenecl, and tliey devoured every green herb of the earth and tlie fruit of every tree that the hail had left. sas is not the only state in the union that has suffered from visita- tions of the locust, as we find that in the years 1818-19 vast
. A new centennial history of the State of Kansas [microform] : being a full and complete civil, political, and military history of the state from its earliest settlement to the present time. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 570 Trrruc's History OF offendea Deity. Tliey covered the whole hirul in Egypt so that the carlli \;'darkenecl, and tliey devoured every green herb of the earth and tlie fruit of every tree that the hail had left. sas is not the only state in the union that has suffered from visita- tions of the locust, as we find that in the years 1818-19 vast hordes of those insects called grasshoppers, but really locusts, appeared in Minnesota, covering the ground, as Kiell mentions in his historv of that state, three and four inches thick, and destroy- ing cvcrytliing in their track. Canada has sometimes been vis- itLHl, and the lied river country in Manitoba has suffered terribly. About the year 1820 or '21 the western counties of Missouri were desolate<l by their presence, as they devoured every green thing, but they came late in the season, the country was then but sparsely settled, and only a few old residents besides the Indians can give any account of their ravages. The locusts filled the earth with their eggs, which were hatched in the following spring, but the insects took flight as soon as their wings were developed, and comparatively little harm was done in the second year. Those portions of Missouri in which cotton, flax, hemp, wheat and tobacco were planted, are said by another authority to have suflered much in the second year, but corn was not injured. Kansas was included in that raid, beyond question, ns its posi- tion between Missouri and the Kocky mountains, the habitat of the locust would necessitate a passing call, and the late arrival in Missouri argues a prolonged stay here en route. They were again in Kansas just after settlement began, in the autumn of 1854, when the few residents near Lawrence were much
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