REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 20I 



STATE EXHIBITS. 

 The Department was unable to comply with the many requests 

 for the mounts showing the life histories of some of our noted 

 insect pests. Two sets of these mounts, numbering 24 each, 

 were in demand during the summer and "Fair Season" in the 

 fall. For the purpose of exhibiting the live caterpillars during 

 the feeding season sets of cages were constructed and placed on 

 exhibition. These attracted a great deal of attention and proved 

 very educational. These sets were used at the Summer Schools 

 held in Farmington, Castine and Presque Isle, also at meetings 

 of the Bar Harbor Horticultural Society and the York Harbor 

 Village Improvement Society, the several State fairs and some 

 of the county fairs, also at the annual meeting of the State 

 Board of Trade, the State Pomological Society and the State 

 Grange. 



ORCHARD INSPECTION. 



There has been such a demand for orchard inspection that it 

 has taken much time from the other work and also necessitated 

 the employment of extra help. 



About fifty orchards were inspected and in each case the con- 

 ditions were very serious indeed. Canker was found in every 

 instance and dead and dying trees were left as a menace to the 

 rest of the orchard. Oyster-shell bark lice were much in evi- 

 dence. Hardly any spraying was being done and as a result 

 much of the fruit was in poor condition. 



In many orchards a demonstration was held showing how to 

 treat canker and the necessary pruning to follow such treatment ; 

 also instructions were given on handling the different insect 

 pests. 



But little can be accomplished along the line of better fruit 

 for Maine until there is a general movement on the part of our 

 orchardists to secure this result. It will not come of itself; 

 there must be a lot of work and good solid work at that. Let 

 us off with our coats and go at it, and in ten years from now 

 the fruit crop of Maine will have increased ten fold. 



