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this office in January, 1936, and forwarded to county commissioners 

 for submission to the Works Progress Administration. Several of 

 these were not submitted bj^ the counties at all. Two were ap- 

 proved in May, and on June 5 five other counties were informed 

 that cricket projects could be operated. Of the counties which at- 

 tempted cricket control under WPA projects, Chouteau perhaps 

 did the most work. The effort there got under way on June 22. 

 Three seven-man crews dusted some 10,000 acres. This dusting 

 was all done after the crickets had reached the adult stage and 

 while it reduced crop damage to some extent action was too long 

 delayed and too limited in extent to cut down the cricket popula- 

 tion for another year. The same was true of other counties which 

 operated WPA projects. 



The damage from crickets in 1936 was in excess of $340,000 

 to cultivated crops and an unestablished amount to range areas. 

 In table 8 are presented estimates for cricket control in 1937. 



TABLE 8.— ESTIMATED COST OF CRICKET CONTROL FOR 1937 



Acres Pet. to Acres to 



County infested poison poison Total cost 



Big Horn 20.000 10 2,000 $ 3,000.00 



Carbon 90.000 ii 9,000 13,.500.00 



Cascade 4,000 m 400 600.00 



Chouteau 120,000 .. 12,000 18,000.00 



Glacier 5,000 n 500 7.50.00 



Judith Basin 60,000 m 6,000 9,000.00 



Lake 5.000 .. 500 7.50.00 



Pondera 10,000 .. 1.000 1, .500.00 



Park 1.5,000 .i 1.500 2,2.50.00 



Powder River 20,000 n 2,000 3,000.00 



Rosebud 220,000 n 22,000 33,000.00 



Sweet Grass 30.000 n 3,000 4,-500.00 



Stillwater 15,000 .i 1.500 2,2.50.00 



Treasure 20,000 n 2,000 3,000.00 



Yellowstone 25,000 t, 2,500 3,750.00 



Wheatland 20,000 .. 2,000 3,000.00 



Tongue River I. R .50,000 n 5.000 7,.500.00 



Crow I. R 300,000 m .30,000 45,000.00 



Total 1,029,000 102,900 1.54.3.50.00 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET 

 CONTROL IN MONTANA IN 1937 



To protect cultivated crops in Montana from grasshoppers 

 and crickets during 1937 and furnish very limited protection to 

 range areas close to such cultivated crops, the costs will be about 

 as follows: 



