THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



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THE STATE INSECTARY. 



For the iutrodiietioiL breedinii' and dissemination of beneficial pre- 

 daceovis and parasitic insects a special department has been created in 

 the ofifice of the State Commissioner of Horticulture, known as the 

 insectary division. The officers of this division are provided for by 

 law, the chief of which is known as the Superintendent of the State 

 Insectary. The State Insectary was constructed especially for the 



Fig. 295. — Beneficial insects are expressed from the insectary directly to the growers. 



(Carnes. M. B. Cal. Hort. Com.) 



rearing and breeding of beneficial insects and is located in the Capitol 

 Park at Sacramento. It is supported by appropriations of the State 

 Legislature, and is, therefore, a free institution to all the citizens of 

 the State. 



The operations of the insectary are briefly as follows : Expert ento- 

 mologists are kept in the fields in California and in other states and 

 countries, who collect natural enemies of destructive insects. These 

 are forwarded to the insectary where they are supplied with the proper 

 hosts and reared in sufficient numbers to be sent out into the sections 

 of the State where the destructive insect pests, upon which they prey, 



