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1 have already referred to the results obtained in the Parish of St. Etienne. 

 In the Parish of Mont Carmel the farmers, under the guidance of Father E. Fusey, 

 treated 7,400 acres, of which 2,000 acres consisted of farm land which had been 

 abandoned owing to the continuous outbreaks of the locusts. In some fields, in 

 1015, crops of vegetables and grain were harvested for the first time in eleveji 

 years. The Parish priest reported complete success in the use of mixture No. 1, 

 with Paris green used in the strength of ll/o pounds to the 20 pounds of bran, 

 in his opinion 95 per cent, of the locusts having been killed. On June 22,- I 

 visited the parish and very few living locusts, indeed, were present in the fields 

 examined. Mr. G. Beaulieu, Field Officer of the Branch, who was also present 

 in the same district during the period June 20 to 29, could not find any fields 

 sulficiently infested to enable him to undertake control experiments similar to 

 tliose conducted at Bowesville, Ont. In some fields a second treatment was given 

 owing to very heavy rains following the first spreading. 



Part of abandoned farm, Valmont, Que., now a breeding ground for locusts. 



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In the Parishes of Pointe du Lac, St. Boniface de Shawinigan and Almaville, 

 similar satisfactory result's were obtained and the farmers generally were well 

 pleased with the poisoned bait, which certainly saved from destruction many 

 fields of crops. 



The question of the control of locusts is a very important one to many 

 farmers in Eastern Canada, but we are extremely hopeful as a result of our 

 experimental and field demonstration work, that the destruction of these insects in 

 future outbreaks will be a comparatively simple matter — largely one of proper 

 co-operation. Farmers living in districts where locusts are destructive should 

 organize in early spring so that a sufficient quantity of poison, etc.. will be readily 

 available to distribute over the fields when the locusts are about the size shown 

 flt a and h of figure herewith of the Lesser Migratory Locust. The poisoned 

 bait should be applied early in the morning (before or very soon after sunrise) 

 on or about the same day. Twenty pounds of poisoned bait is sufficient to treat 

 five acres. It is. of course, not necessary that the mixture be applied to all 



