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California, and to the Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest : supervising fumi- 
gations of buildings, furniture, food supplies, bocks, documents, etc., and investi- 
gating and giving advice on insect problems presented by various Federal agen- 
cies; investigating the control of household insects for the Federal Trade Com- 
mission; testing, for the Army Quartermaster, the resistance to insect damage 
of treated fabrics used in manufacture of army clothing; and field testing of 
commercial screwworm remedies for the Food and Drug Administration. 
SCREWWORM CONTROL 
The cooperative campaign to control the screwworm in the Southeastern States 
was continued on March 15, 1930. These activities were recognized as a division 
reporting direct to the chief of bureau with headquarters in the field. The 
act making appropriations for the fiscal year 1937, approved June 4, 1936, con- 
tained an immediately available appropriation of 8460,000 for work on the screw- 
worm, and the cooperative educational and demonstrational work was extended 
to the Southwest, including the western part of Texas and the States of Okla- 
homa. New Mexico, Arizona, and California. 
During 1935 and the early part of 1936 general field headquarters were main- 
tained at Atlanta, Ga., with State headquarters in each of the cooperating 
States — Florida, Georgia, South Carolina. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and 
Texas. With the extension of the program to the Southwest, the general field 
headquarters were moved to San Antonio, Tex., regional offices being established 
in Atlanta and San Antonio and State offices in all cooperating States. 
During the active season of 1935 the 316 counties in the Southeastern States 
where work was carried on were grouped into districts, each under the direc- 
tion of a district leader, and county supervisors were employed for most of the 
counties. These special county leaders, numbering 248, worked in close cooper- 
ation with the county agents, held meetings, conducted demonstrations, arranged 
for the distribution of medicines and materials used to construct treating pens 
and chutes, assembled records on screwworm infestation, and carried on other 
activities connected with the educational campaign. With cool weather and 
reduction in the number of screwworm cases in all sections other than the south- 
ern part of Florida the work of the county men was discontinued on December 
21, 1935, in all except certain counties in Florida. At the beginning of the 
active season in 1936 the distribution of free medicines and materials for the 
construction of pens and chutes was discontinued in the Southeast as well as 
the employment, on Federal funds, of county leaders. 
The campaign was planned to make full use of existing State and Federal 
agencies. To assure coordination of the interested agencies within the States, 
each cooperating State organized a State committee on screwworm control. 
Splendid cooperation was received from county agricultural agents, veterina- 
rians, teachers of vocational agriculture, and individual stockmen and farmers. 
The meetings and demonstrations were well attended by farmers and stockmen. 
At the 11,128 meetings and demonstrations held in the Southeast there was a 
total attendance of 252,182 persons. Other educational activities are sum- 
marized in table 20. 
Table 
20. — Summary of educational work on screwworm control, fiscal year 
1936 
State 
Meet- 
ings 
and 
demon- 
stra- 
tions 
held 
Attend- 
ance at 
meet- 
ings 
and 
demon- 
stra- 
tions 
Stock- 
men 
visited 
on 
farms 
Ex- 
hibits 
Attend- 
ance at 
exhibits 
Circu- 
lars 
and 
bulle- 
tins 
distrib- 
uted 
Posters 
and 
hand- 
bill-! 
distrib- 
uted 
News- 
paper 
articles 
pub- 
lished 
Pens 
and 
chutes 
made 
avail- 
able 
Radio 
talks 
given 
Alabama 
Number 
497 
1,157 
8,204 
282 
359 
422 
207 
Xuniher 
40, 116 
14, 680 
114,209 
17.101 
38.802 
13,091 
it. 180 
Number 
67, 373 
270, 175 
10.716 
37. 7 1H 
1,395 
8,339 
Xumhrr 
14 
83 
46 
8 
9 
42 
20 
\~ii ?« ><t r 
34,420 
150, 623 
7,850 
199, 215 
Number 
27.971 
17,315 
11.7111 
22.700 
10, 045 
32, 287 
10. 175 
5 
61 
411 
9 
29 
139 
X a ruber 

184 
11.' 

20 
1 
11 
Number 
o 
Florida 
Q 
Georgia 
10 
Louisiana 
o 
Mississippi 
o 
South Carolina 
Texas.. 

1 
Total.. 
11, 128 1252, 182 
432,811 
222 
747, 653 
152, 102 
85, 165 
1,043 658 
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