8 KANSAS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



1906. — C. E. Sanborn published a further account of plant lice of Kansas, 

 giving a list of them and of their host plants. This paper is of 

 great use in distinguishing the beneficial and injurious forms. 

 1907. — Report of the entomologist of the Kansas State Horticultural 

 Society.— Trans. Kan. Acad. Sci., vol. XXIX. 



The legislature designated the professor of entomology at the 

 University as state entomologist. 



The Kansas millers, grain men, and wheat growers raised a fund 

 of about $2500 and asked this department to cope with the green-bug 

 invasion. 



P. A. Glenn was made assistant professor of entomology. 

 Chaptek 386, Laws of 1907. 

 Creating a State Entomological Commission and Making an Appro- 

 priation Therefor. 

 An Act for the protection of the horticultural and agricultural 

 interests of the state of Kansas by the suppression and extermina- 

 tion of San Jose scale and other injurious insect pests and plant 

 diseases; to create the Kansas Entomological Commission, two 

 state entomologists; and to proTide for the punishment for viola- 

 tions thereof, and making appropriations therefor. 

 Sec. 4. That it shall be the duty of said state entomologists, 

 under the control of the State Entomological Commission, to seek out 

 ■nd suppress pernicious insect pests and injurious and contagious 

 plant diseases hereinbefore mentioned as destructiTe to the horti- 

 cultnral and agricultural interests ef this state, and conduct experi- 

 ments when necessary to accomplish that end. 



1908. — September 20, Doctor Snow's death must here be recorded. 



"Experiments with and knowledge of the green bug to date" is 

 found in the report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, vol. 

 XXVII, No. 105, by S. J. Hunter. 



Report of the state entomologist of Entomological Commission of 

 Kansas. — State report. 

 1909. — There was published a complete report of the green bug and its 

 natural enemies and telling how to combat it. By S. J. Hunter and 

 P. A. Glenn. 



Professor Hunter, jointly with Prof. T. J. Headlee, sent out a 

 circular of information regarding the San Jose scale, enemy of the 

 fruit grower. 



Began a systematic survey of orchard culture and management 

 Ib Kansas. 

 1910. — The department of entomology and the department of botany 

 work upon a fundamental investigation of the efficiency of the arti- 

 ficial distribution of the chinch-bug fungus. Professor Billings for 

 botany. Professor Glenn for entomology, working jointly. 



Orchard survey continued. 

 1911. — At request of Kansas millers, conducted special investigation on 

 green bug en southern tier of counties. 



Extended orchard surrey to practically all of the apple-growing 

 districts of the southern half of the state. 



