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18. Furnishing high schools with mounted collections without cost. 



19. Detailed survey of insect life of thirty-five counties. Distin- 

 guishing the beneficial from the injurious. Assisted by Mr. F. X. 

 Williams and advanced students. 



20. In past fifteen years, performed entomological work of prac- 

 tical value in 105 counties. 



21. State entomologist, entomologist to Kansas State Board of Agri- 

 culture. Entomologist to Kansas State Board of Horticulture, honorary 

 member of Western Association of Nurserymen. 



22. Addresses before various state societies on problems of economic 

 value. 



23. Answer from 5000 to 8000 letters annually to citizens of the state, 

 giving information sought by them. 



24. Federal act of August 20, 1912, requires all importations of 

 trees, plants, shrubs, bulbs, etc., to be inspected at point of destination 

 by properly authorized state authority. This department performs this 

 service for the south half of the state. 



25. Extended investigation on probable cause of the human disease 

 pellagra. 



26. Chairman of University research commission on the horse plague. 

 The results of this work were to locate the cause in improperly cured 

 forage, and to demonstrate conclusively that a change to properly cured 

 forage eliminated the disease. At the time when the University under- 

 took this work there were many theories advocated regarding the cause, 

 and now practically all investigators engaged on the problem agree with 

 the University's diagnosis. 



27. Construction of federal legislation in interest of horticulture, and 

 assistance in passage of same. For some ten years the federal authorities 

 and horticultural interests had been unable to agree on federal legislation 

 to protect this country against importations of foreign pests. There is 

 now a federal statute, and Kansas has proper protection thereby. Two 

 trips were made to Washington and frequent conferences held with the 

 members of House Committee on Agriculture in connection with this 

 work. 



28. The large problems which concern the state from time to time, 

 such as the native grasshoppers, chinch bugs, Hessian fly, green bug, and 

 codling moth, as the preceding pages show from year to year during the 

 past forty years as occasion required, have been the subject of special in- 

 vestigations by the department. 



For example, in the year 1913 the department cooperated with county 

 commissioners in the distribution of 170 tons of the dry poison for the 

 extermination of grasshoppers. 



