TWENTY-SIXTH REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 



TABLE 2. — GRASSHOPPER BAIT AND BAIT MATERIALS ON HAND 



County Mixed bait 



Tons 



Beaverhead — 



Big Horn 2.0 



Blaine — 



Carbon — 



Cascade — 



Chouteau — 



Custer — Powder River 1.0 



Daniels 11.0 



Dawson 36.0 



Fallon — Carter , - — • 



Fergus 5.0 



Flathead 5.0 



Gallatin — 



Garfield — Petroleum — 



Glacier 8.0 



Hill 15.0 



Judith Basin 15.0 



Lake — 



Lewis and Clark — Broadwater 3.0 



Madison — Jefferson 22.0 



Missoula — 



Musselshell — Golden Valley — 



Park — 



Phillips 10.0 



Pondera 65.0 



Prairie 1.5..5 



Richland 30.0 



Roosevelt 3.0 



Rosebud — 



Sanders 20.5 



Sheridan 5.0 



Stillwater — 



Sweet Grass — 



Teton 12.0 



Toole 40.0 



Valley 2.5.5 



Wheatland — 



Wibaux .30.0 



Yellowstone 20.0 



Totals 399.5 



*Liquid sodium arsenite on basis of "4 



Bran 



Sodium 

 arsenite* 



Crude 

 arsenic 



Molasses 



GRASSHOPPERS IN RELATION TO THE RANGE, 1934-1936 



The most serious insect problem in Montana at the present 

 time is to find and demonstrate a way of preventing the de- 

 struction of range forage plants by grasshoppers. This damage 

 was severe in 1934 bi' '/.as become even worse the past two 

 seasons. In those th^ „ years the total loss on the range has been 

 set at $1,750,000. (See table 4). This figure is probably far too 

 low; it is based on an estimated damage of approximately 16 to 



