The Red Cloud chief., 1875-07-15

TnE people Of this country have
every reason 70 rejoice now that the
that bss thrcsscucd u 50 long
is 70 al Appearances passed. A fair
crop Of small grain We are certain ef.
although Dot = much - vas askic;pa-
ted 10 the fore part ofehe sessoo The
grs sshopps kave al soss By. nd Is
they only stay away the prospect pow
Is that We will have an abundant corn
crop. Corn never looked better than
now, . great deal Of it is tasseled out
and some Of il hes commenced to ear,
Early corn il already kfEs enough to
use, potatoes. sulnips, beetss peas.
beans, and et&. are abundant. II has
been H. dificslt to get vegetables for
some time past that they arsgquite .
luxury 70 everyone. nov That they
have q o abundance.
There has been . great amount Of
Dissatisfaction and grumbhng about
this country for the past year ; this is
not right. when We compare our situa-
ton With that Of other new states We
End that We are far ahead Of what
they we're 1t our age, especially east
ern timbered states where they had TO
work early and late for t6ye years be-
fore they could get . sufficient amount
Of land cleared TO begin toraise enough
70 live on, and . great rkaYsssf-
c.,.A from nes..-.~.eus 0
dl6'SA3eyeaT from the grasshoppeia.
Last year We we're damaged considers
BE here by grasshoppers, and in some
parts Of the State they have cleaned
out crops 10 . great extent this year ;
still We know nothing about them
when compared with other countries.
We publish here an extract from a
book called the Weekly Regaser, pub
lished in 1912:
THE LocUsrs OF AFRICA.
Locusts are produced from some IN
known, physical cause. and proceed
from the desert, always co. ing
from the south. When they visit =
country it behoves ever individual to
lay 10 . provision against q famine ;
for they are said to stay three, Eve or
seven years. During my residence IN
West and South Barbery, those coun-
tries suffered . visitation from them
during seven years. They have .
government among themselvs, similar
to the bees and ants ; and the sultan
Jerrsad, king Of the ~locusts, rises, the
whole body follow him, not one single
straggler being left behind to witness
the devastation. When they have
eaten al other vegetation they attack
the trees, consuming first the ~
and then the bark. 80 that the coun-
try, in midst Of summer, from their
unsparing rapacity, bears the face Of
winter. 10 my travels | have seen
them so thick on the ground, IS to
sometimes actually have covered my
horses feet as he went along. 1t Is
very anoying::to travel through ahtst
Of them, a they are continually flying
in your face, and settling on your
hands aud clothes. At q distano,
they appear, in the air, like IN i'm
mence cloud, darkening the sun /; and
whilst employed in devour;ns the
products Of the land, it has been OBJ
served that they uniformity proceed
one way, as regularly IS . disciplined
army on its march; DOT will it be pos
sible to discover a single one going Q
different way from the rest. In trav-
cling from Mogodor to Tangier, be-
fore the plague in 1899, the country
was covered with them. A singular
incident occurred at FL Arsiche; the
Whole country from the confines Of
Sahara to that place vas ravsged by
them, but after crossing the river Ell
Kos, they were not TO be seen, though
there vas nothing to prevent them
from flying across it. Moreover, they
were alrmoving that way, that is to
the north; but when they reached the
banks of the river, they proceeded
eastward, so that the gardens and
fields north of Ell Araiche were full Of
vegetables, fruits and grain. The
Arabs Of the province Of Fl 0arb con
sidered this remarkable circumstanc,
Is sneviden interposition Of Provi-
This curse Of heaven can only be
conceived by those who have seen the
effects of their devastation.
The poor people BY living on them
become meager and indolent, for no
labor will yield fruit, whilst the locusts
increasing in numbers. In
the rainy season they paIially disap-
pear, asd 1t the opening Of the spring
the ground is coverd with their young.
Those crops of corn which are first
mature, and the grain which becomes
hardened before the locust attains its
full growth, are likely to escape pro
vided there are other crops less for
ward for them to feed upon.
In the year 1893, these destructive
insects were carried away into the
Western Ocean by . VIC lent hurricane
md the shores were afterwards Gov
.red By their dead bodies, which, in
uxny places emitted . Presidential
,mell that Is. wherever, the land wae
ow, or where the salt water had not
washed them. To this event succeed
ID . most abundant crop Of corn, the
iands that had lain fallow for years.
,sing now cultivated bat the pro
luce of the cultivation was accompa-
ed with . most infectious sn6 dead y
a calamitu of Rhich thu To- |