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DEPAKTMENTAL REPOETS. 



Summary of cooperative enterijrises heticeen the Department and the colleges and 



station s — Continued . 



The Division of Entomology cooperates with tlie stations generally 

 in a number of different ways, including the frequent identification 

 of material, studies of life histories of in.sects, and the means for their 

 control. Among the special lines of cooperative effort during the past 

 year have been those relating to the introduction of beneficial foreign 

 insects, the South African grasshopper disease fungus, the Mexican 

 cotton-boll weevil, the codling moth, insects injurious to forest trees, 

 and the relation of insects to the health of man. 



EXPERIMENT STATION EXHIBITS AT EXPOSITIONS. 



The experiment station exhibit made at the Buffalo Pan-American 

 Exposition of 1!)01 was transferred to the South Carolina Interstate 

 and West Indian Exposition, at Charleston, S. C, in the fall of that 

 year, and at the close of that exposition was returned to Washington. 

 The Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 

 Stations, at its convention in Washington in 1901, voted in favor of 

 an exhibit showing the progress of agricultural education and research 

 at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904, and a com- 

 mittee, of which the Director of this Office is a member, was appointed 

 to have charge of this exhibit. If this plan is carried out considerable 

 work in connection with the exhibit will doubtless be imposed on this 



