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ganizations for control, spreading of poison materials, and all other details 

 necessary for an efficiently conducted campaign. 



The various states should cooperate with the Federal Bureau and should 

 ininiodiately form a state grasshopper control committee, the chairman of 

 which should, in most cases, be the director of the State Agricultural Exten- 

 sion Service. All matters of policy and administration should be handled 

 through the state control committee and the Federal Bureau. 



Each county desiring to conduct a grasshopper campaign should make 

 their contacts directly with the state committee, and in a like manner, town- 

 ship organization should be handled through the county committee. 



(B) A preliminary educational campaign should be started immediately 

 for the purpose of informing producers and business men as to the location 

 of possible outbreaks. At the same time, the plan of organizing the program 

 should bo thoroughly explained as well as other details necessary for a suc- 

 cessful campaign. During the conference it was emphasized repeatedly that 

 the full cooperation of farmers and local business men was imperative for 

 satisfactory results. 



(C) Thorougli plowing of the land before the grasshoppers hatch in the 

 spring of 1934 will materially reduce their numbers, greatly increase the pos- 

 sibilities of effective control and will reduce the amount of poison bait re- 

 quired. Every effort should be employed to induce such practice. 



(D) The conference believes it is necessary to make an egg survey in the 

 fall of 1934 in order to locate those areas where there might be a possibility 

 of continued damage in 1935. This survey should be made under the direction 

 of the Bureau of Entomology of the Federal Government in cooperation with 

 state officials. The funds for such Avork should be included in the amount 

 made available for the emergency grasshopper campaign of this coming season. 



C — The conference gave careful attention to the financial requirements for 

 emergency grasshopper control in 1934. Considering the fact that the entom- 

 ologists declare over 13,000,000 acres will need application of poison bait, it 

 is conservatively estimated that the sum of two and a half million dollars 

 is needed. 



It was further unanimously agreed by those attending the Eegional Con- 

 ference that this money must be made available not later than January 1, 1934. 

 Delay in securing this money will seriously jeopardize the thorough and early 

 organization which is so necessary among farmers and local business groups. 



Because of the impoverished condition of many of the worst infested 

 counties, and the practical, if not legal impossibility of raising large sums 

 of money in the counties for the purchase of bait, therefore it is reluctantly 

 concluded that the federal government must be asked to step into this 

 emergency as they have in other regional insect invasions, and provide ade- 

 quate funds for the purchase of grasshopper bait. It was unanimously con- 

 cluded that states and counties could and would find means for financing 

 local organization expense and the cost of transportation and distribution. 

 In proposing this method of financing, w^e advance the sound argument that 

 tlie most equitable spread of the cost of a campaign covering many states, 



