February, ’20] 
NEWELL: POISONING THE BOLL WEEVIL 
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Project—Entomology 
Comba- 
Time allotted to project 
Educational 
tive 
month 
Name of insect 
Days for 
entomologist 
Days for 
county agent 
Follow-up 
subject matter 
lesson sheets 
Ext. schools, 
farmers’ insts. 
county fairs 
Month 
June 
July 
Aug. 
Sept. 
Hessian fly 
County agent 
conferences 6 
days; with each 
county agent 1 
to 3 days for 
meetings if pest 
unusually bad 
14 to 20 days or¬ 
ganizing and in¬ 
structing farmers 
on methods of con¬ 
trol 
1. Life history and habits 
2. Seasonal history 
3. Control measures 
4. Plants attacked 
5. Bulletins 
Oct. 
Nov. 
Dec. 
Jan. 
Feb. 
Nov. 
County agent 
14 to 20 days in 
1. Life history and habits 
Oct. 
Dec. 
Chinch bug 
conferences 6 
fall; 14 to 20 days 
2. Seasonal history 
Nov. 
June 
days; with each 
in spring organi- 
3. Control measures 
Dec. 
July 
county agent 1 
to 2 days for 
meetings when 
pest is unusu¬ 
ally bad - 
zing and instruct¬ 
ing farmers on 
methods of con¬ 
trol 
(a) Fall burning 
(b) Barriers 
4. Plants attacked 
5. Bulletins 
Jan. 
Feb. 
March 
County agent 
14 to 20 days con- 
1. Life history and habits 
Nov. 
April 
Green bugs 
conferences 6 
tinuously during 
2. Seasonal history 
Dec. 
May 
days; continu¬ 
ously in infested 
fields during 
outbreak 
outbreak 
3. Methods of control 
4. Plants attacked 
5. Bulletins 
Jan. 
Feb. 
March 
With each agent 
As many days as 
1. Life history and habits 
Nov. 
April 
White grub 
in infested dis- 
needed to cover 
2. Seasonal history 
Dec. 
May 
June 
July 
Aug. 
Sept. 
trict 1 to 3 days 
for meetings 
infested district 
3. Crops attacked 
4. Methods of control 
5. Bulletins 
Jan. 
Feb. 
March 
County agent 
14 to 20 days or- 
1. Life history and habits 
Nov. 
April 
May 
June 
Cutworms 
conferences 6 
days; with each 
agent in infested 
district 1 to 2 
days for meet¬ 
ings 
ganizing and in¬ 
structing farmers 
on methods of 
control 
2. Seasonal history 
3. Crops attacked 
4. Methods of control 
5. Bulletins 
Dec. 
April 
County agent 
10 to 20 days or- 
I. Life history and habits 
Oct. 
May 
Grasshoppers 
conferences 2 
ganizing and in- 
2. Seasonal history 
Nov. 
June 
days; with each 
structing farmers 
3. Crops attacked 
Dec. 
July 
agent in infested 
on methods of 
4. Methods of control 
Jan. 
Nov.. 
Dec. 
district 2 to 3 
days for meet¬ 
ings 
control 
5. Species involved 
6. Bulletins 
Feb 
June 
County agent 
5 days organizing 
1. Life history and habits 
Oct. 
July 
False wire- 
conferences 2 
and instructing 
2. Seasonal, history 
Nov. 
Aug. 
Sept. 
worms 
days 
farmers on pest 
3. Crops attacked 
4. Methods of control 
5. Species involved 
Dec. 
Jan. 
Feb. 
May 
All of time in all 
Continuously on 
I. Life history and habits 
Nov. 
June 
July 
Aug. 
European corn 
borer 
situations 
guard 
2. Special instructions to 
county agents and farmers 
as to possibility and method 
of its being introduced into 
Kansas 
3. Plants attacked 
4. Bulletins 
Dec. 
Jan. 
Feb. 
March 
April 
Fruit insects: 
With each agent 
8 to 10 days or- 
1. Life history and habits 
Sept. 
May 
Codling-moth 
in April 4 days; 
ganizing orchard 
2. Spraying schedules 
Oct. 
June 
San Jose scale 
in May 4 days; 
clubs, etc., for 
3. Insecticides and fungicides 
Nov. 
July 
Canker Worm 
in June 2 days; 
pruning and 
4. Orchard management 
Dec. 
Dec. 
Curculio 
in September 
spraying demon- 
5. Bulletins 
Jan. 
Jan. 
Feb. 
March 
Apple Aphis 
Apple leaf 
skeletonizer 
Apple leaf 
hopper 
Apple-tree 
borer 
Peach-tree 
borer 
and October 
roundup; judg¬ 
ing results in 
orchards and ex¬ 
hibits at county 
fairs 2 to 3 
days; orchard 
tours 6 to 8 
days 
strations 
Feb. 
