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C. M» Packard (June 11): Grasshoppers are destructively 
abundant in many of the mountain valleys in Modoc and Siskiyou 
C&unties. Systematic control measures are already under way 
in Modoc County, where good results are being obtained with 
the usual poisoned bran bait. The Reclamation Service set 
aside $5»000 for the use of settlers in the region around 
Tule Lake for fighting grasshoppers, Modoc County also 
furnished the services of five men to assist in mixing and 
applying poisons. An interesting machine was deviled under 
the direction of the Reclamation Sergice, consisting of hose 
and burners to which distillate oil under pressure was conveyed, 
the whole apparatus being mounted on a truck. About ten acres 
should be covered at a cost of about $1 per acre. Practically 
all of the nimtiature hoppers were killed by this treatment. The 
truck was driven forward slowly, with two men on foot, one 
man handling each burner, and each man covering a swath 30 
feet wide, 
California Weekly News Letter , Vol. 5, No. lk (July lU): A heavy 
infestation of grasshoppers is reported from Yolo County, In 
the control work in this outbreak 5 barrels of molasses, 700 
pounds of Paris green, and 250 dozen lemons were used. Hoppers 
are now fairly well under control, but the cold weather has 
held back emergence, so that there will probably be heavy 
control work for the nexjr two or three weeks. 
MORMON CRICKET (Anabrus simplex Hald. ) 
Stewart Lockwood (July 20): Mormon crickets are not in the 
Uinta valley to any degree as yet but I found them in large 
numbers on the top of Diamond Mountain, which is a high mesa 
about 2,000 feet above the floor of the valley. During the 
trip many bands of crickets were observed , some of them several 
miles long. One in particular was 3 railes wide and several 
times as long. All of them were traveling, though each band 
seemed to be going in a different direction from others. At 
the end of the trip I could see 75 per cent of the cropped 
land was very heavily infested, 20 per cent of the grazing 
land was full of crickets, and the rest had from now and then 
one to four and five to the square foot. Most of the damage 
I saw was done to native grasses, 
CUTWORMS (Nofctuidae) 
E. L, Chambers (June 20): Cutworms are damaging corn in 10 
counties throughout northeastern and southwestern Wisconsin. 
M. H» Swenk (June 15-July 1): During the period covered by 
this report the variegated cutworm, Lycophotia margaritosa Haw., 
was numerous, but not enough so to be injurious. 
I, M. Hawley (June 15) '• Corn is being injured by several 
species of cutworms, with a loss of about 25 per cent in some 
fields near Cedar City. 
