FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OP STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 65 



All Horticultural Inspectors of the State of Montana are hereby- 

 instructed and required to refuse admission into the State of Montana 

 to all such articles as are herein designated from said State of Utah 

 and counties of Bear Lake, Oneida, Bannock, Franklin and Power 

 in Idaho, and counties of Unida and Lincoln in Wyoming, except 

 under the conditions herein enumerated. If any such articles as 

 are hereinbefore listed be shipped into the State of Montana in 

 violation of this quarantine they must be at once destroyed or 

 returned to the shipper at his expense. 



This quarantine shall not be construed to interfere with ship- 

 ments of produce to the Yellowstone Park over the Oregon Short 

 Line Railroad, and to Idaho points via Montana over the Gilmore 

 and Pittsburg Railroad. 



This quarantine shall take effect and be in force on and after 

 the first day of July, A. D. 1916. 



It is specifically understood and intended that this quarantine 

 proclamation shall revoke all previous proclamations on this subject 

 by me made. 



IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and 

 caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed. 



Done at Helena, the Capital, this the twenty-fourth day of June, 

 in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred sixteen. 



S. V. STEWART 

 By the Governor: 

 A. M. ALDERSON 



Secretary of State. 



THE ARMY CUTWORM 



The army cutworm is one of our most important pests in Mon- 

 tana. In a previous publication we have stated that in the year 

 1915 about 100,000 acres of spring wheat was eaten off, requiring 

 reseeding, and that this insect in that one year cost the State on 

 wheat alone at least $925,000. This loss would have been very much 

 greater had it not been for the use of remedies which were brought 

 to the attention of grain growers through the press and by corres- 

 pondence. From all over the State we were assured that the remedy 

 proposed, namely, the use of poisoned bran mash, was very effective. 

 Much more grain could have been saved if this office had been 

 notified earlier. This insect feeds on a wide variety of crops and 

 plants and is capable of doing immense damage to agriculture in 

 Montana in the years to come. 



This outbreak afforded an opportunity which we had long been 

 seeking to study the early stages and habits of the insect. Excellent 



