however, that on account of the poisonous hairs borne by the 

 caterpillars, turkeys will not feed upon it." 



When Mr. Raker was told that I had expressly disclaimed 

 that poultry would eat the insect in the nearly grown and full 

 grown caterpillar stage, and that what the Bureau was wanted 

 to define its position on was whether or not poultry will attack 

 the insect in all other stages which take up ten months out of 

 the twelve in a year, the Bureau declined to do so, but said 

 I am wrong on this and all other points I wanted them to de- 

 fine their position on. 



That the position is sound is shown by the fact as stated 

 more in detail on page 12 of my Circular Nq. 155, from D. A. 

 Bulletin No. 124, p. 28, that Mr. Charles Springer of Cimarron, 

 N. M., hires a boy to herd an immense flock of turkeys on the 

 range, so that they may feed upon the grasshoppers, destroying 

 the grama grass and other range grasses. Cimarron is in the 

 center of range caterpillar infestation. 



As grasshoppers live during the cool part of the year, 

 about seven months, as eggs in che soil, it is plain that the 

 turkeys must live during this time on something else and I had 

 pointed out for four years past that the egg clusters of the 

 range caterpillar on weed stems are that the most easily 

 available thing to eat there is. Efforts to have the State Dele- 

 gation to Congress from New Mexico do something to have 

 the Bureau of Entomology to go into details in these matters 

 were futile. Also as explained on pages 7 to 9 of my Circular 

 No. 154, the State Biologist-Entomologist of New Mexico out- 

 right claimed he wanted to be shown that the use of poultry 



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