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MONTANA EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 333 



TABLE 1.— GRASSHOPPER BATT USED IN MONTANA IN 1936 



County and 

 WPA bait private bait 



County Old fed. bait 



Tons 



Beaverhead — 



Big Horn 5.0 



Blaine 15.0 



Carbon — 



Cascade 100.0 



Chouteau 20.0 



Custer — Powder River 24.0 



Daniels 2.0 



Dawson 4.0 



Fallon-Carter 8 



Fergus 70.0 



Flathead — 



Gallatin 20.0 



Garfield-Petroleum 5.0 



Glacier 20.0 



Hill 26.0 



Judith Basin 30.0 



Lake 1.4 



Lewis and Clark — Broadwater 17.0 



Madison — Jefferson 45.0 



Missoula ■ — 



Musselshell — Golden Valley — 0.3 



Park 8.0 



Phillips 20.0 



Pondera 156.0 



Prairie 7.0 



Richland 30.0 



Roosevelt 40.0 



Rosebud 45.0 



Sanders 3.5 



Sheridan 60.0 



Stillwater 10.0 



Sweet Grass 6.0 



Teton 130.0 



Toole 100.0 



Valley 14.5 



Wheatland — 



Wibaux • — • 



Yellowstone • — 



Totals 1035.5 



♦Estimates on sawdust used (750 

 bait used for 1936. 



New fed. bait 



Total 



federal appropriation. The remainder is bran purchased by 

 counties under the insect pest law. See table 2. 



A very great part of all the poisoned bait used in 1936 went 

 to protect irrigated crops. In many localities over the state but 

 particularly in the Yellowstone Valley large acreages would 

 have been completely destroyed by grasshoppers had it not been 

 for the intensive control programs which were organized against 

 them. 



