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except as fodder. Plate V, Fig. 2 shows portion of a 
field in the same village not quite so badly attacked. 
The soil here is reddish. A few shreds of leaves have 
been left and the heads still contain a certain quantity of 
erain. This field was also untreated. Plate VI, Fig. 1 
shows portion of a field which was deep-ploughed and 
bagged only twice. The seed was planted far apart in 
this field, hence the somewhat thin nature of the crop. 
The crop here has been for the most part saved, but this 
is partially to be accounted for by the fact that one neigh- 
bours of the owner on all sides, bagged more thoroughly 
than he did and hence helped to save his crop. As Will 
be seen in the picture, the leaves have not been severely 
eaten while the heads have lost comparatively few grains. 
Plate VI, Fig. 2 shows a few jola plants in the most 
thoroughly-treated field. Here, as already stated, the 
crop has been practically completely saved. The field 
shown in Plate VI, Fig. 1 shows up in the back ground. 
Data have been collected which allow us, with a con- 
siderable degree of accuracy, to estimate the probable cost 
of bagging for the Jola Grasshopper. In the bagging 
operations at Honnah, 1910, twenty-eight acres were 
handled by the department for three separate bageines 
made at intervals of about a week. For this work. four 
men, on an average, were used on a single bag so that they 
could work in relays. It is doubtful if this was necessary, 
and I believe that at the most three men would be re- 
quired to handle a bag. ‘They could relieve each other at 
intervals, while the man who was resting could move the 
kerosene tin about for the gathering of the hoppers. It is 
possible that two men at a bag would be still more 
economical. This is the way the raiyats themselves 
arranged the work, for the most part. 
It is well, however, to take the upper limit in calcu- 
lating the expense, so we shall consider the expense of 
four men working with one bag. These men took about 
seven days to complete the work, doing, on an average, four 
acres in a day. At the end of each sweep the same 
ground was gone over again; so each treatment was really 
a double one. During ‘the first week, the men were paid 
at the rate of three annas a day each; for the subsequent 
work, they were paid at the rate of four annas. If we 
take this higher figure, we get a total expense of seven 
