156 MOXTAXA EXPEEIMENT STATION 



Bozeman, Montana, April 16, 1915. 



To the Newspapers of Montana : 



This office desires to cooperate with the press of Montana in 

 preventing, so far as possible, the damage to fall grain and other 

 crops by the army cutworm. 



We believe that many crops are being damaged without the 

 owners knowing it. An emergency circular giving the most up-to- 

 date information has just been printed and will be sent to all who 

 request it. This gives directions for examining the field and gives 

 remedies which we have used with much success this season. \\'e 

 wll be glad to send these in bundles to those who will distribute 

 them to farmers who need them. 



In some localities there is need for community cooperation. 

 Bankers and business men should aid the farmers to organize. In 

 places where bad outbreaks are occurring the poisoned bran mash 

 should be mixed up in quantity and distributed to the farmers at 

 cost. 



Very respectfully, 



(Signed) R. A. Cooley, 



Entomologist. 



Besides this special letters were written to some newspapers. 

 Other letters were written to bankers and elevator operators. The 

 result was that we received many requests for the circular. Bundles 

 of from ten to fifty were sent to different parties all over the State. 

 The circular was held in type and reprinted twice. 



The correspondence on the subject of recognizing and con- 

 trolling the army cutworms became heavy. As many as forty-eight 

 letters were written in a single day. 



Two assistants from this office spent much of their time in 

 the field cooperating with the farmers during this outbreak. There 

 can be no doul^t that in se^'eral instances a sum greater than the 

 entire appropriation made to the office of the State Entomologist 

 was saved on a single farm, and it is clear that throughout the 

 State the amount of the whole appropriation ($'2,000) was saved 

 many times over. 



Advantage was taken of the presence of this insect in such 

 unusual numbers to secure further information reoardino- its life- 



