TWENTY-riFTH REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 



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and with ramifying national effects, is to be found in present forms of 

 federal taxation. 



The Federal Government has invested, and has outstanding loans to the 

 farmers in those areas, sums of money totaling many millions of dollars. This 

 heavy investment on the part of the Government, combined with the inability 

 of the individual states and counties to provide funds, makes it a sound 

 business policy for the National Government to make such funds available 

 to protect its investment. Vast amounts are being expended in the form of 

 relief in these districts and it is the opinion of the conference that -without 

 a curtailment of grasshopper damage next year, even more extensive relief 

 measures will be required in 1935. 



7 — The conference does not contemplate more than one year of this emer- 

 gency work. But it docs recommend that a long-time program of grass- 

 hopper control be worked out between the federal government and the state 

 entomological organizations, with the idea of eliminating the recurrence of 

 such extensive outbreaks as the present one. Since surveys are fundamental 

 prerequisites for efficient control campaigns, it is recommended that the con- 

 tribution of the Bureau of Entomology be an annual grasshopper survey. It 

 is expected that tlic individual states will take advantage of this survey and 

 stamp out local outbreaks before they reach major proportions. 



Figure 3. — The li>34 grasshopper-egg siir\ey. Where grassluippi'i- outlireaks aie 

 X)redicted for 1935. 



