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Show DAMAGE DONE DY LOCUSTS. 8tvtntttn-Yttr Speclmtni Have Begun Be-gun Thslr Work. The 17 year locusts are beginning to show what real damage they ran do. When they first appeared In numbers num-bers In parts of Maryland a few weekt ago tht farmers charged them with but very little damage; now the residents' resi-dents' tune hat changed, and all about you can hear them saying: "The locust! lo-cust! are ruining my made and fruit trees." Accordlrg to the fannert, the grettett damare being dono by tho locusts It to tho llm.a ot trees. After the locust emerges from the ground It at once makes for the body of the trco, and sticks upon It until ready to emerge from Itt shell, which Is exactly tbo thapn of the Insect, legs and all. The ehell breaka lengthwise of the locust, from the mlddlo ot tho back to tho head. Out of this opening tho locust comet forth at whllo at a thoet. It Immediately beglnt to crawl to the trunk of a trco. It It rot long be. forn It beglnt to get darker In color, until within a few hourt It becomes almost black, wlta tho exception of tho body and tho eye, which romatn a reddish brown. Aa toon as thoy turn dark they proceed to the extremo emit of tho tree whero ficy do tho damage. Tho femaloa sting kills tho hrancho. Chlrkert, dogt and sparrows spar-rows are maklrg i)nrt work ot tho Ipsertt when they come In contact with them The crops In the floldt have rot suffered at yet. |