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The botanist, by studying their liabits and methods of development, and 

 learning- their hosts, can intelligently recommend remedies which will do 



much to check their ravages. 



THE CHEMIST. 



The chemist will be chiefly occupied with analysis required by the 

 work of the agriculturist and horticulturist, and in such other work as 

 may be determined by the director. So far as the horticulturist is con- 

 cerned, the chemical work required will be confined to analasys of fer- 

 tilizers, and of such fruits and vegetables as his work may require. 



THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The entomologist will make a study of the beneficial as well as in- 

 jurious insects, and if possible, point out remedies which will destroy the 

 latter. 



The station entomologist names and prescribes remedies for 

 such insects as may be sent to the station, and test such insecticides 

 and machines for applying them as come to his notice, or that his inge- 

 nuity can invent. 



The great need now so far as the subject of entomology is con- 

 cerned, is not to discover new remedies, but to induce the horticulturists 

 and farmers to fight those already known, making use of such remedies 

 as have been recommended in the past. When they can be induced to 

 cross arms with the bugs, and engage in a " fight to the death," then 

 will the entomologists have accomplished their purpose. It is the 

 farmers who are backward. The agricultural press and the reports of 

 the horticultural society and of the board of agriculture, have for years 

 contained remedies for the destruction of the more common insects, but 

 how many farmers make use of them ? 



