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Montana R, A» Cooley (June 27): A communication has been received 
from Liberty County that "every inch of country is covered 
with hoppers. This county seems to be the worst grasshopper 
spot on the map, and farmers are in a bad way financially." 
Utah I. M» Hawley (June 23): Several species of grasshoppers 
are doing considerable damage in northeastern Utah and Millard 
County in western Utah. The demand for amyl acetats has 
been so great that it is now almost impossible to get it, even 
at $5.50 and $6 a gallon. Sodium arsenate in the bait is 
giving good control in most places. A few growers in the 
Uinta Basin are using hopperdozers. 
Stewart Lockwood (July 20): I have just returned to Billings 
from the Uinta Basin in Utah. The grasshopper doing the damage 
is M. bivittatus . though there were some atlanis Riley, 
femur -rubrum DeGeer and uackardii Scudd, I found that for 
the most part the cropped land was not heavily infested with 
grasshoppers but that there were several rather large sections 
where M» bivittatus had done all the damage it could* Several 
large fields of alfalfa were totally destroyed, nothing being 
left but the coarser stalks. Few parasites were found. From 
conversations with farmers it would seem that they have 
witnessed a typical increase in the population of this particular 
species of grasshopper, i. e. , for several years grasshoppers 
have not big'en a great factor with the farmers, but last year 
many fields were slightly damaged and some were destroyed. 
This year the localities where there were grasshoppers last 
year are now overrun and many more fields have been damaged 
to a considerable degree. At the time I was there many of 
the females were about to deposit their eggs, and it is 
probable that some had already done this, 
Nevada C» M, Packard (June 25): Hoppers are still small and 
exceedingly abundant in colonies covering from 5 t° 20 acres 
in Elko County. Cold weather has prevented damage to date, 
but with warm weather serious injury to all crops seems 
inevitable. 
Oregon L% P. Rockwood (June 12): Practically all the damage being 
done in Lake and Klamath Counties can be attributed to 
Camnula pellucida . These hoppers usually oviposit on slight 
fcidges and knolls in the otherwise poorly irrigated area. 
Reclamations have materially increased the area in fohich 
hoppers oviposit. The trouble has been practically continuous 
for five or six years and seems to be increasing in severity. 
Stockmen have been compelled to drive stock out of their 
pastures when they should have been at their best and, in 
many cases last year, cattle died of starvation on the way )to 
distant mountain ranges. The areas of egg laying are 
comparatively small and this gregarious habit should be taken 
advantage of in controlling this pest. 
