Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-01
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ANA berer-neter undertake
Code holy purpose to control
The Lord have mercy on your soull"
THE LOCUST.
IA this insect has made tts appeafan
the present year in several sections of O
country. It's history and character may
interesting TO many Of your fehdei
These insects do hot appear In all parts
the country ut the same time or the san
year. / have the locations Of sixteen di
tinct districts, in which they appear, eth
in different Years OF with largo spaces
territory intervening. The following Il
bic will give All idea of the disifietsl
Rsoppeaf
In louisiana they appeared IN 1890 1853
AT GAllipolis, Ohio, 1893 1866
On the Muskingum river, q. 1890 1916
In Pennsylvania, west Of The
mountains, 1892 1910
In eastern Georgia and North
Carolina, 1884 1861
Ii Prince Georges county, Va. 1920 1916
In southeast New York, west.
efn Connecticut a. Mass. 1926 1913
In Middlesex county N. Jersey, 1926 1913
In fauguisr county, Virginia,
and az far south az Milton,
North Caroline, 1890 a
In northern Maryland, south
ern Penn, Delaware, and
northern Virginia, 1884 1851
In MISSISSIPPI, N n Port Gibpun 1891 1851
In the south part of Massachu.
setts, 1898 1855
In Kentucky and adjacent parts
Of Ohio, 1893 1876
In the middle couties of Cseot.
gia, 1919 1850
In North Carolina. central
eountiee. and uouth part Of
y Virginia, 1912 1880
In I%llinoia, about Alton, 1919 1850
Il may be that tho two districts, M,s.
kingum river, Ohio and Kentucky, &C.,
may be n and tho same, although the
Muskihgum river is n long distance above
Kentucky. So, also, may The MiddIeses
county N. J. district, be Il part Of south.
eastern New York, western Massachusetts,
and western Connecticut districts. All
The others ARE perfectly disconnected aud
the only point on which, o are ut any loss
is the boundaries Of the districts; we do
not know whether those above Indicated
cover the whole extent of our couutry or
whether there are others not yet recorded,
II editors OF newspapers aud pestma stars
would take upon themselves The small
trouble of informing ME of tho faot when.
ever and wherever the locust occurs, |
should be able ID tftake the table complete.
Il Is hot uncemition III some parts OF our
county, for this insect to appear at be.
riods differing more OF less from seventeen
years. We account fof This In tits way
Loudon county, Virginia. IL on the Dor.
ders oftwo d districts, that Of Maryland, ote.
us3tJ and that Of Fuuqnier county, otr.
Is26. '48l and these Districts iap over
eacl' other In Loudor county, and nrola.
bly, for a long extent IF territory. fiencb
on this border-belt the insects, appears
every 9Th and 9th gear alternately. fills
n eumstanee has led the people Of that
section of the country Ia disbeiieto In The
sevepteenth year character @. this insect,
asserting that ii 10 moi true, at loss. 50 far
ms their section of country is concerned.
Other sections prestn Mt other deviations
from the same cause. For example; In
the south part of Hentico county, virgi.
MIA, they have the l~oeusts this year, ana
they win have them again in 1910 ;ahe
borders Of The t~o districts tapping as
These insects make their way Out of the
ms b Us The weathef becomes
warm in the sptlng--ssy from 18th Of
April in the south, and on the 18th
May IN the matchmaking II round hole,
like I three. fourth inch suget hole, in the
In n grove OF siirubt,ery, that
was occupied by fees or shrubs seventeen
years BEFORE there will be several of these
holes IN a square foot. The insect, when
il leaves the ground, is i'm the chrysalis
state. He seeks n tree or shrub, inalnedi.
atoly attaches himself to il a few feet from
tho ground, uriflf hc beconqes dry, when he
rupturos his shell on, his back, works him.
self out Of IT, gradually expands his def
wings TO the sun and air, and in the
of an hour or two is ready for
flight. They are nearly a month before
leave the ground after they have
.%sccssSa near 4 s%diii.ace, having formed,
a kind Of chamber al the top Of their
holes, apparently for the purpose of avail
ing themselves Of the warmth of the sun,
as they descend 10 the bottom at night
and in cool weather, and ascend to the
top in day time and in warm dry weather.
The top. of the chamber or hole, and its
are nicely cemented for the purpose
of excluding water.
Soon after the insect has taken fight,
as above mentioned, the union of tho sexes
takes place, and in a few days (penerally
only one or two) the females begin TO de.
posite their eggs in the small Branches of
and shrubs. They generally choose
branches about the size of their own DO.
dies. It will be impossible to describe the
mode of deposi,ing the eggs without the
aid of drawings. The female has an ms.
tran,ent called an OIL poster (egg deposi.
ter, lby means of which she makes an ex-
caraton in the branch, to the depth of
about half way between the bark and
Piih ; in each excavation she deposites
two eggs then withdraws the oyipositer,
makes another excavation, deposites two
more, and thus proceeds till all are depo.
sited. If she has not room enough on
one side, she goes round to the other. and
when she does SO the branch is apt to per.
ish from the interruption Of the sap ; hence
,pa Gee en- MANY dad branches on the