Montana farmer-stockman. [volume], October 01, 1948, Page 31, Image 31

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Range Hopper Control
Appears Feasible
MANY RANCHERS in Montana
and Wyoming suffered serious dam
age of rangelands from grasshoppers
this season. Ordinarily the sheer
magnitude of any attempt to set up
control measures for large areas of
rangeland would be discouraging
to any operator, but hope for fea
sible methods is seen inextensive
experiments conducted in Wyoming
this year.
Under the auspicies of the U. S.
department of agriculture in co
operation with land owners and
county and state authorities in Mon
tana and Wyoming, 36,000 acres of
rangeland northeast of Sheridan,
Wyo., were treated in a grasshop
per control experiment. Both planes
and ground equipment were used
in application of sprays and baits.
Dr. Wakeland In Charge
Dr. Claude Wakeland of Denver,
chief of the division of grasshopper
control, was in charge of the opera
tion. In a letter to Montana Farmer
Stockman he reports on the work
as follows:
"The project was a large scale
control experiment conducted to de
termine the feasibility of control of
grasshoppers on range land through
use of two of the alternate insecti
cides, chlorinated camphene and
chlordane. Approximately 36,000
acres of land were treated. It is yet
too early to draw final conclusions,
but the following is our impression
to date;
95 io 100 Percent Control
"Over-all results indicate that
grasshopper control obtained with
chlorinated camphene and chlordane
sprays resulted in control of between
85 and 100 percent of the grasshop
pers present in the treated area. The
chlorinated camphene spray was ap
plied at the rate of 1% pounds of
technical material per acre and the
chlordane applied at the rate of one
pound of technical material per
acre.
"In each case the required amount
of technical material was incorpor
ated in one gallon of petroleum sol
vent and the mixed formulations
were applied at the rate of one gal
lon of formulated material per acre,
"Bait, which consisted of large,
flaky bran impregnated with mea
sured amounts of chlorinated cam
phene and of chlordane, obtained
control of 90 to 95 percent of grass
hoppers in the area baited when the
prepared bait was spread at the rate
of 5 pounds to 10 pounds per acre.
The chlorinated camphene bait con
tained 1^10 to 1/20 of a pound of
technical chlorinated camphene per
acre, depending upon whether the
application rate of the mixed bait
was 10 pounds or 5 pounds per acre.
Chlordane Bait
"The chlordane bait was applied
at the rate of 5 pounds to 10 pounds
per acre. The 5-pound bait involved
the application of 1/20 of a pound
of technical chlordane per acre and
the 10-pound application involved
the deposition of 1/10 pound of
technical chlordane per acre.
"It is noted that there was no loss
of game birds or wild life as a re
sult of the control operations. Game
bird and wild animal counts were
made by representatives of the fed
eral and state fish and wildlife serv
ices, and they reported negative
findings upon examination of the
treated area which had been con
trolled with both materials, in both
forms, i.e., sprays and baits.
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