Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1877 — The Grasshopper Question to be Investigated. [ARTICLE]

The Grasshopper Question to be Investigated.

Wasmkoton, March 2L The Secretary of tea Interior to-day oommiaaiooed the following penoos aa members of tl» Looak Commionnp: Prof. & V. Riley, of 8t Look, known far hia labor* in economic entomology; Prof. A. & Packard, Jr., of Salem, Maas., editor of the Amerfem Katuralitt, who k to bo Secretary of toe Oomwikwwn, and. Prof. Cyras Thomaa, of Oarbondale, CL, State Kptomnlngkt The Oommkaion will bare ite quarter* bare at Washington, with a Western eSoe in 8t Look. Prof. JUUy propoaea to take the area east of the mountain* and south of the fortieth parallel with Britkh America. Pwf. Thomaa will take the counfayoottoofttw fortieth Britito to aaoertain what agi mi —w» he brought to bear in faciliteting the dertroetioa of the eggs as thwSelda in winch they breed laroeiv: but in all roabahslity the laigok breeding ground k in a-w«~L»_ That oosmtir being difßcnlt toojftee, it k likely that the Commission will