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Mr. T. J. Headlee: Is there danger of cows, chickens, etc., eating 
poisoned paper? 
Mr. W. P. Flint : I do not know that there is any greater danger 
in using the paper than in using poisoned bran. I was, however, able 
to overcome the prejudice with some people by using paper instead 
of bran. 
Mr. J. R. Parker: At the Montana Experiment Station this past 
summer we conducted preliminary experiments with twelve different 
attractive substances and much to our surprise found that lemons and 
lemon extract ranked at the bottom of the list and that amyl acetate 
was far ahead of any of the others; we also found that salt alone was 
practically as good as when both molasses and fruit juices were used. 
Mr. Arthur Gibson: In our work in Eastern Canada, we have 
conducted a large number of experiments in controlling locusts and 
like Mr. Parker, we have found that salt is one of the best attractants. 
We used the ordinary Kansas bait in 1915 at the cost of 21 cents an 
acre. Substituting salt for the molasses and fruits we reduced the 
cost to 7 cents an acre. One of the best formulas we used was 20 
pounds of sawdust, one-half pound Paris green, one-fourth pound salt, 
and three gallons of water. We have killed, with this mixture, up to 
720 locusts to the square yard. 
President W. C. O’Kane: The next paper is entitled “Organiza¬ 
tion for Grasshopper Control,” by George A. Dean and E. G. Kelly. 
ORGANIZATION FOR GRASSHOPPER CONTROL 
By George A Dean, Entomologist, Kansas State Agricultural College and 
Experiment Station 
and 
E. G. Kelly, Extension Entomologist, Kansas State Agricultural College 1 
Since the first recorded devastation in Kansas, western Kansas has 
been the scene of several outbreaks of grasshoppers. Inasmuch, how¬ 
ever, as several other western and some eastern states have records of 
devastation by this pest, Kansas cannot claim the distinction of being 
the “Grasshopper State,” although it has been so dubbed by many 
people. The state has a large acreage of level prairie lands suitable 
for cultivation and in proportion to its area probably has almost as 
large an acreage under cultivation as any other state. In spite of the 
fact that there is very little waste land on farms, the roadsides and 
fence-rows afford abundant breeding grounds for grasshoppers. West¬ 
ern Kansas grows a large acreage of wheat, oats, barley, alfalfa, corn 
1 Contribution No. 50, from the Entomological Laboratory, Kansas State Agri¬ 
cultural College. 
