The afflictions of the earlier Selkirk settlers were increased by the arrival of these settlers.

With the Selkirk settlers in their first decade the first consideration was always food.

Till that question is settled no Colony can advance.
Probably the most alarming and hopeless feature of their new colonial life was the appearance of vast flights of locusts or grasshoppers, which devoured every blade of wheat and grass in the country.

To those who have never seen this plague it is inconceivable.

Some thirty-five years ago in Manitoba the writer witnessed the utter devastation of the country by these pests.