scale to handle the work, and do this the year around. To 

 have poultry thus available in a paying way it is necessary to 

 give poultry the run of the surroundings of the fields, that they 

 may be able to pick up most of their sustenance in the winter, 

 a matter that may have to be regulated by law, since these 

 surrounding lands may belong to somebody else. This kept 

 up in the spring and, if necessary, during the summer, as long 

 as bugs in quantity feed on the forming heads, holds the pest 

 in check. 



When the grain crops are harvested the bugs go to other 

 food plants then forming heads, such as late grain, milomaize 

 and volunteer grain. As near as feasible, poultry can be used 

 to pick them off. The use of a gasoline outfit on a truck is 

 naturally far the most feasible artificial means of control where 

 poultry cannot reach them. With steps taken to have trap 

 crops heading up till frost, where poultry can get at them, this 

 will greatly decrease their chances for damage the following 

 year. Probably some suitable variety of millet, sown at suc- 

 cessive periods, will answer well for traps. The aim must be 

 to concentrate the bugs upon low growing vegetation for at- 

 tack by poultry or the torch, and thus keep tall vegetation, 

 such as peach trees or grapes, free of them. 



Indications are strong that this pest will rapidly become 

 of great importance in California unless soon checked by 

 proper measures, as here outlined the mild winters, the dry 

 summers and great variety of food supply being specially fa- 

 vorable to its multiplication. At present the pest is reported 

 from southern and central California. 



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