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. Dickinson County. 

 Made annual examination and certified to the healthy condition of 

 about $10,000 worth of nursery stock during each of the last eight years. 

 Distribution of green-bug parasites. 



Doniphan County. 



Made examination of the orchards with reference to a serious outbreak 

 of apple blight, and reported same to the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Distribution of green-bug parasites. 



Douglas County. 



Made annual examination and certified to the healthy condition of 

 about $300,000 worth of nursery stock at five different points, during 

 each of the last sixteen years. 



Eradicated a serious infestation of San Jose scale. 



Detected of foreign importations seven nests, amounting to about 

 1500 of the brown-tail moth. 



Erected an inexpensive plant for the manufacture of orchard sprays, 

 demonstrating to farmers their independence of any spray manufacturing 

 concern. 



Took immediate charge of the spraying and management of one 

 orchard and directed the work in two other large orchards. 



Demonstrated in experimental orchard the efficacy of sprays in pro- 

 ducing sound fruit and in increasing yield and market value of orchards. 



Edwards County. 



Established and maintained for many years experiment station for the 

 exclusive study of alfalfa culture and insect life, with special reference 

 to grasshoppers. 



Developed and established on a firm basis the cultural value of the 

 disc harrow in the production of alfalfa. 



Demonstrated that disking and cross-harrowing in the spring in- 

 creased the alfalfa yield about one-third. 



Made annual examination and certified to the healthy condition of 

 about $.5000 worth of nursery stock during each of the last seven years. 



The department here profited by the cooperation of Professor Dean, of 

 the Agricultural College, in campaign against the grasshopper. 



Elk County. 

 Distribution of green-bug parasites. 



Ellis County. 

 Distribution of green-bug parasites. 



Made detailed survey of insect life of the county, with special refer- 

 ence to species injurious and beneficial to agriculture. 



Ellsworth County. 

 Distribution of green-bug parasites. 



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