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Show Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 68 [Vol. XV, cricket-infested counties would furnish all necessary equipment, materials, supplies and transportation of the latter and the men employed within the respective counties. Resulting from consideration and action by the State Correlation Com Agriculture, the State Board of Agriculture, the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station and the Agricultural College Extension Service, the writers of this paper were recommended to, and appointed by, the Federal Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine for the positions of state leader and assistant state leader, respectively. Frank T. Cowan, associate entomolo gist, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, United States Department of Agriculture, was in direct charge of the 1937 campaign in Colorado, Mon tana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. With the aid of county commissions and county extension agents concerned, In Millard a supervisor was appointed in Juab, Tooele, and Uintah Counties. County two supervisors were appointed, one for the Oak City district and Works Progress Administration labor was as one for the Scipio district. signed to the proj ect from the respective district relief rolls. Because of some delay in obtaining county commitments, necessary equip ment, materials, etc., and in getting men assigned to the project, actual dust ing operations did not begin until May 10. This delay seriously impeded the If control work could have begun about success of the control campaign. March 15, most of the crickets might have been destroyed on, or near, their hatching grounds, where they cluster in greater numbers than elsewhere. At this time less poison would have been required for the destruction of equiva Farm crops were early attacked in the following lent numbers of crickets. districts: Boulter, Clover, Eureka, Fountain Green, Grantsville, Lofgreen, Mills, Nephi, Oak City, Paradise, Scipio, St. John, Vernon, and ranches in mittee of the West Tintic Mountains. but little interruption in Juab, Millard it was discontinued for the season. 31 when until Tooele Counties and August The dust used was a mixture of four parts of 200-mesh hydrated lime and This material was dusted on the bodies one part powdered sodium arsenite. of the crickets during the hours from daylight to eight or nine o'clock in the the morning and from four or five o'clock to dark in the evening, while crickets were clustered or in the process of clustering for roosting. Although serious crop damage threatened early in the season, relatively little resulted, due to the effective results obtained in the federal-county co cricket operative control program. Estimates of crop damage resulting from dust cricket of used, expen infestations, numbers of acres dusted, quantity ditures and estimated savings .in connection with .cricket control work during ,Cricket dusting progressed with 1937 are presented in table 5. for By reference to table 5 it will be observed that the total expenditure Of this amount the cricket control in Utah during 1937 .was $35,160.68. Federal Government expended $23,278.17 for the payment of Works Progress Five cricket-infested counties ex Administration labor and. its supervision. medical for dusting pended $10,472.51 equipment, mterials, transpotation, miscellaneous ex examination of all men employed on the project, and for services of !he the The Agricultural Experiment Station provided penses. and facilities aggregatmg stationery, office state leader, secretarial assistance, treated in Utah during 1937, the amount of dust total For the acreage $1410 cost was $3.61. The used averaged 8.28 pounds per acre, and the average acre been have by crickets except destroyed which would likely value of. crops for control work done was estimated at $177,615. in 1937, p01:1ltry was Supplementing the dusting method of cricket control Fountain Green, used. in the following districts: Boulter Pass, 2500 turkeys; .. |
