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sion, doing more work, traveling day and night, but at the same time 

 performing a service increasing in scope and efficiency such as one 

 should be ambitious to attain when possible. The public has a right 

 to request the personal service of such officials occasionally, and it 

 is helpful to the latter to mingle with the people of this State and 

 learn their conditions, needs and attainments from direct observa- 

 tion and experience. It would not be well for the chief of this Bu- 

 reau to immure himself within the walls of this office and attempt to 

 perform his duties through correspondence, publications and official 

 reports only. In considering the needs and duties of the office and 

 the work performed by the directions of the Bureau proper consid- 

 eration must be given to the time and energy required for the lec- 

 ture work at agricultural organizations, horticultural meetings, 

 fairs, before schools, granges, demonstrations before special audi- 

 ences, and elsewhere. 



During the year the Economic Zoologist delivered thirty-four pub- 

 lic addresses, in some cases traveling two days, as to Erie and re- 

 turn, for the purpose. 



The lectures by the orchard inspectors have been freely given, not 

 only at indoor public orchard meetings, but at public demonstrations, 

 and also in grange halls, school houses, churches and elsewhere, and 

 much good has been accomplished by this kind of service, 



SCHOOL WORK 



Many teachers interested in agriculture and the related sciences 

 have applied to this office not only for publications for their pupils, 

 but also for contributions of specimens and for aid in naming speci- 

 mens collected, for the loan of lantern slides on insects, bee-keeping, 

 birds, reptiles, amphibians, trees, spraying, pruning, etc., and also 

 for addresses to be delivered by representatives of the office, and 

 especially by the field demonstrators in schools in their respective 

 districts. 



When the weather is too bad for the field inspection service our 

 orchard inspectors go to schools, and with the set of thirty charts, 

 made in this office, showing enlarged and colored illustrations of in- 

 jurious and beneficial insects, they give addresses on these subjects 

 that are very valuable and are much appreciated. By this means 

 plain facts concerning the fundamental principles of pest suppres- 

 sion have been taught to the pupils of the public schools, and the 

 hearty response from the County Superintendents, principals and 

 teachers has shown the high favor in which this work is regarded. In 

 fact several County Superintendents of schools have requested our 

 services at their institutes and special meetings, and some have co- 

 operated with the work of this office by requesting that spraying 

 demonstrations be given near their schools that are teaching agri- 

 culture, in order that the boys and girls could have an opportunity 

 to attend and learn the practical lessons to be given by the demon- 

 strator. 



SCHOOL COLLECTIONS 



For years we have been making a collection of insects and native 

 animal forms of all kinds, with special regards to agriculture, and 

 our entomological collection along this line is now one of the best 



