22 MONTANA EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 333 



For Grasshoppers 



6.559 tons of poisoned bait ($25.00) $165,000.00 



Operation of mixing stations, local 



transportation, etc 12,470.00 



Labor, distribution of bait none 



$177,470.00 

 For Crickets 



Poisoned dust 38,587.00 



Expense connected with operation of mix- 

 ing stations, establishment of camps, 

 camp equipment, local transportation... 24,940.00 

 Labor for dusting 154,350.00 



217.877.00 

 Total for both grasshoppers and crickets $395,347.00 



There are 21 other states in the west and middle west with 

 critical grasshopper situations. There are 7 states in the inter- 

 mountain region facing cricket outbreaks. On October 23, 1936, 

 representatives of the states interested in cricket control met at 

 Pocatello, Idaho, to lay plans for the coming year. None of 

 these representatives was in favor of attempting another cricket 

 campaign as a Works Progress Administration project. Reasons 

 for this are many, but in brief cricket-control work is not a 

 suitable project for WPA. Crickets must be dusted early in the 

 morning and in the evening. The hours of labor are thus very 

 irregular as are the times of day when the work must be done. 

 It is very desirable therefore, if not almost essential, for the 

 men to live in camps close to the field of operations. Sentiment 

 at this meeting was strongly in favor of a cooperative arrange- 

 ment between the federal government (Bureau of Entomology 

 and Plant Quarantine, United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture) and infested counties. It was proposed that the federal 

 government furnish the labor necessary for applying the dust 

 and the counties provide the materials and take care of the 

 expense incident to the establishment of camps. The mainte- 

 nance of the camps would be paid from the daily wage of the 

 men occupying them. Under such an arrangement farmers as 

 well as men from relief rolls could be engaged in the work 

 thereby providing enough local men to create a strong sense of 

 responsibility in handling the poisonous materials. Further- 

 more by paying a reasonable wage the work could be done at 



