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siderable attention was given to the wheat midge the past season as it 

 was widely distributed, but we found no definite method for recording 

 the exact degree of infestation. Other insects were made the subjects 

 of inquiry as indicated on the daily report blank used by the surveyors 

 and exhibited herewith. Also a blank report was filled out for each 

 wheat field visited (blanks attached). 



Cost of the Survey in 1917 



In 1917 one of the surveyors spent eleven days in the field using an 

 automobile exclusively for all travel. He succeeded in hiring a Ford 

 at $4.50 per day for this use, making the automobile cost $47.25 and 

 the cost of his maintenance for the period was $22.40. His total ex- 

 penses in surveying sixteen counties was $69.65, or a little more than 

 $4 per county. 



The other three surveyors traveled by rail from county to county 

 and either hired automobiles or livery teams for the actual field work 

 or else were taken in charge by the county agents who arranged for 

 transportation. 



One of the three surveyed eleven counties at a cost to the Station 

 of $77.25. To this should be added the transportation costs borne by 

 the counties and of which we have no record. They probably amounted 

 to $50. 



A second surveyed twelve counties at a cost of $111.68. Again to 

 this should be added an estimated item of $50 which was borne by the 

 counties. 



The third man working by rail covered thirteen counties at a cost of 

 $104.55. We estimate that $60 should be added to this amount as the 

 item borne by the counties. A few counties such as Wayne, in which 

 the Experiment Station is located, were surveyed incidentally without 

 cost to the state other than the time of the entomologists which was 

 covered by their regular salaries. 



The total cost to the state and counties of the survey made in 1917, 

 •exclusive of the salaries of the surveyors, was $463 as closely as we can 

 •determine. Allowing three weeks as the average time worked by each 

 surveyor, the total cost, salaries included, was $1,048 as nearly as can 

 be determined. This figure includes the salary of the Director of the 

 Survey as well as of the field men, though most of the Director's time 

 was given to other matters than the survey while it was proceeding. 

 Out of our eighty-eight counties, fifty-six were entered and we ob- 

 tained rather meager but first-hand information as to conditions 

 within them. The counties not entered were, many of them, between 

 the parallel lines of survey, and others were not important wheat-pro- 

 ducing counties. We obtained such information from them as could be 



