February, '14] HUNTER: KANSAS GRASSHOPPER CONTROL 73 



Such excellent cooperation was had from all the farmers and county 

 officials and so well organized was the work that it lasted only two 

 weeks. Six representatives from the Agricultural College, three dis- 

 trict farm demonstration agents, one representative of the Bureau of 

 Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, ^ and four rep- 

 resentatives of the University of Kansas, cooperated in the work. 



The entire work was an excellent example of cooperation, and demon- 

 strated what can be done when farmers, merchants, bankers, millers, 

 college men, farm demonstration agents, government men, and county 

 officials get together. 



Although the farmers in western Kansas experienced last summer 

 the most serious outbreak of grasshoppers known in that part of the 

 state, they demonstrated that they were equal to the occasion. After 

 they were once convinced they were prompt in organizing, and by 

 putting into operation the methods of control recommended by the 

 Agricultural College, they were successful in destroying the grass- 

 hoppers. At the close of the season the entomologists and the farm 

 demonstration agents made a careful examination of the grasshopper 

 situation and were convinced that there were fewer grasshoppers in 

 western Kansas than there had been for many years. In fact, when 

 we consider that the farmers of western Kansas fed to their grasshop- 

 pers almost a thousand tons or two million pounds of poisoned bran 

 mash, it is no wonder that there is a scarcity of grasshoppers. From 

 60 to 80 per cent of the hoppers were killed by the poisoned bran mash. 

 The remaining grasshoppers were so left to the merc}^ of the parasitic 

 and predaceous enemies that only a few of them escaped. 



President Parrott: This paper has been very interesting. We 

 have another on the same subject by Prof. S. J. Hunter, which we 

 will have before opening the subject for cUscussion. [The author 

 submitted the following in place of the verbal report. Ed.] 



GRASSHOPPER CONTROL IN THE SOUTHERN 

 DIVISION OF KANSAS 



By S. J. Hunter and P. W. Claassen, University of Kansas, Laurence 



Seventeen years ago the first problem presented to the senior author 

 when first he became officially associated with the University of 

 Kansas was the native grasshopper problem in western Kansas. This 



^ The writer desires to acknowledge the vakiable cooperation of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, United States Department of Agriculture. Mr. Harrison Smith, assistant 

 entomologist, United States Department of Agriculture, helped very much in organ- 

 izing counties in Northwest Kansas. 



