TWENTV-FIFTH REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 15 



brought the amount of federal money as represented in bait ship- 

 ments to Montana to .$496,834. However, all of this was not used 

 and a carry-over of bait valued at .4:74.230 is now in storage for the 

 1935 work. 



ORGANIZATION OF THE 193i GRASSHOPPER CAMPAIGN 



As authorized under the federal regulations, a state grasshopper 

 control committee was set n]\ This consisted of the following persons: 



.r. (". Taylor, Director Moiilinui Agricultural Extension Service. Cliair- 



man 

 Alfred Atkinson, President of [Montana State College 

 F. B. Linfield, Director ]\[ontana Agricultural Experiment Station 

 A. H. Stafford, Commissioner of Agi-iculture 

 A. L. Strand, Entomologist, Montana Agricultural E.xperiment Station, 



and State Entomologist 



At the first meeting of this connnittee. A. L. Strand, as State 

 Entomologist, was appointed state leader. His duties were as follows: 



1. Acting for the committee, to receive applications for federal grass- 

 hopper bait from the counties. 



'2. To cooperate with tlie federal headquarters at [Minneapolis in direct- 

 ing the consignment of bait to Montana points. 



3. To act as a clearing house for all reconsignments and diversions of 

 bait Avithin the state. 



-t. To organize the state into districts and to see that counties securing 

 bait Avere properly organized to use it in the most effective manner. 



."). To arrange for the appointment of county leaders in such counties 

 where no county agents were already available. 



(5. To conduct the campaign in the most effective manner possible. To 

 issue printed circulars on methods of using the bait as well as all 

 other phases of the \vork. 



Accordingly the state was divided into five districts, three of 

 which had assistant state leaders to act as supervisors. The districts 

 and personnel were as follows : 



District 1. W. 1',. Mabee, Assistant State Leader 



County County Leader 



Blaine E. G. Ferguson 



Daniels Cha*. L. Eichhorn^ 



Phiilips H. M. Oefstos 



Roosevelt A. W. Warden 



Sheridan ., O. A. Lammers' 



Valley C. H. Willson 



•Under special federal ajipointment for grasshopper control work. 



