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are found. To properly conduct the work requires great skill upon 

 the i);)rt of the collectors and those in charge of the breeding work. 



At the present time a very strenuous effort is being made to bring 

 this work in cIohov touch with the great pro])lems of insect control. 

 ]Mr. Harry S. Smitli, who has for many years been in charge of para- 

 sitic -work for the Bureau of Entomology of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, became superintendent January 1. 1913, and is thoroughly 

 organizing the work along up-to-date and scientific lines. A specialist 

 is to be sent to foreign countries in the spring, while local assistants 

 are to explore the State for native species. Mr. Smith will also make 

 it a point to secure all possible parasites and predaceous insects in the 

 United States. He is thoroughly qualified for the position he now 

 holds and is alive to the great needs and possibilities along these lines. 



All fruit growers are invited to keep in close touch with the State 

 Insectary and to make their wants known. It must be remembered, 

 however, that results from breeding insects are often exceedingly slow 

 and uncertain, and that it will be some time before new importations 

 can 1)(^ placed in the orchards. Likewise parasites and predaceous 

 insects sent out into the orchards require several years at least before 

 they are thoroughly established and become controlling factors. 



