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last few nights (mid-June, 1917) it has taken one hundred and eighty- 

 one JntiliSj but there have been caught only three ru<j<>xa, while fusca, 

 usually most abundant, has not been represented at all. O. S. WEST- 

 COTT, Oak Park, Illinois. 



Emergency Entomological Service. 



Numbers 3, 4 and 5 of the reports of the Emergency Entomological 

 Service, United States Dept. of Agriculture, "Reporting cooperation 

 between Federal, State and Station Entomologists and other Agencies," 

 have appeared since the preceding issue of the NEWS. They are 

 dated July I, August I, and September i, and consist of 21, 28 and 

 25 mimeographed pages, respectively. 



Among their more important contents are notes of new legislation in 

 Illinois whereby the State Dept. of Agriculture has authority to 

 compel owners, or other occupiers, of property infested by insect 

 pests or plant diseases to take measures to arrest or prevent the same 

 under penalties (upon conviction) of fines of $10 to $100 for each 

 and every offense; the establishment of an Insect Pest Survey and 

 Information Service by Dr. E. P. Felt, under the New York Food Sup- 

 ply Commission (a description of the workings of this Survey by 

 Prof. C. R. Crosby is given in No. 4) ; a similar survey in Ohio under 

 Prof. H. A. Gossard; the use of farm demonstrators in practically 

 every county in New Jersey, reported by Dr. T. J. Headlee, and in 

 Tennessee under Mr. G. M. Bentley; a systematic educational campaign 

 in Mississippi leading up to "Spray Your Orchard Week," December 

 9-15, 1917, to be so designed by proclamation of the Governor. 



The Food Production Act, approved by President Wilson August 10, 

 1917, appropriates $441,000 "for the prevention, control and eradication 

 of insects and plant diseases injurious to agriculture, and the conser- 

 vation and utilization of plant products." Of this sum $145,775 nas 

 been allotted to the Bureau of Entomology. A statement is given in 

 No. 5 of the way in which it is proposed to expend this sum. "It is 

 contemplated to inaugurate the present fall an extensive campaign 

 against the Hessian fly and to undertake work on a large scale in the 

 control of insects injurious to stored grains, peas, beans and stored 

 products generally. During the winter, work in dormant tree spraying 

 for scale insects, fumigation of citrus trees and similar activities will 

 be actively pushed. . . . Never before in the history of economic 

 entomology in this country have there been funds to carry, on so large 

 a scale directly to the farmer, fruit grower, stock man and others, 

 practical instruction in the treatment of insect pests." 



Reports on insect injuries in 15 States are given in No. 3, in 25 

 States in No. 4, and in 21 States in No. 5. Among the insects whose 

 depredations have been more serious are : 



