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This plan appears to offer a means of securing the greatest 

 possible amount of work with the minimum of expense and labor 

 and permits of the work being carried on at the time when it may be 

 most effective. 



Our field workers this j^ear both agree in saying that the 

 seasonal conditions in the early part of the summer of 1912 are what 

 saved us from loss this year, but that grasshoppers are still present 

 and numerous and that as soon as one or two seaso7is favorable to 

 them are experienced, we will again luitness their destructive work. 



In conclusion : After our special work of two years and more 

 upon the grasshopper problem in Minnesota, we feel justified in 

 saying that the control of injury caused by these insects is in the 

 farmers' hands; they can, if they will, by following directions in- 

 telligently, and by co-operation, reduce this evil at least 75 per 

 cent. Using the words of one of our field men, "every intelligent 

 farmer should become a leader in this work". It is to be hoped that 

 more grasshopper clubs will be formed, for organized effort in this 

 direction is bound to meet with success. 



