372 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



TREASURER'S REPORT. 



Officers and Members: 



Your Treasurer begs leave to make the following flnaucial report of 

 receipts and expenditures for the fiscal j-ear ending Octorber 31, 1903, 

 to wit: 



Receipts- 

 October 31, 1002, balance on hand $31 43 



November 1, 1902, received from State 1,000 00 



December 12, 1902, received fonii Secretary Flick 43 5U 



December 12, 1902, received from Secretary Flick 50 00 



October 31, 1903, received from Secretary Flick 95 00 



Total receipts $1,219 93 



Expenditures — 



October 31, 1903, paid as per vouchers hercAvith $1,190 87 



Balance on hand $29 06 



Respectfully submitted, 



SYLVESTER JOHNSON, Treasurer. 



President Stevens: What will we do with this report? 



Mr. Stout: I move you that it be referred to the Auditing Committee. 



The motion was seconded and carried. 



President Stevens: That committee will consist of Messrs. Stout, 

 Custer and Swain. 



The next is the report of the State Entomologist, Prof. James Troop, 

 of Lafayette, Indiana. 



REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Prof. Troop: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen— 



The work of this office during the past year has been confined prin- 

 cipally to the inspection of nurseries, although the calls for assistance 

 in other directions have been many; and the correspondence concerning 

 insect-infected orchards and field crops, has been far in excess of other 

 years. As far as possible I have responded, either in person or by mj' 



