STATE COMMISSION OF HORTICULTURE 



December, 1913 



THE MONTHLY BULLETIN 



VOLUME II No. 12 



DEVOTED TO THE DESCRIPTIONS, LIFE HABITS AND METHODS OF CONTROL OF INSECTS, 



FUNGOID DISEASES AND NOXIOUS WEEDS AND ANIMALS, ESPECIALLY IN 



THEIR RELATIONS TO AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE. 



EDITED BY THE ENTIRE FORCE OF THE COMMISSION UNDER THE FOLLOWING DIRECTORS : 



CENSOR 

 A. J. COOK - - - State Commissioner of Horticulture, Sacramento 



EDITOR 



E. 0. ESSIG ....... Secretary, Sacramento 



ASSISTANT EDITOR 



LEROY CHILDS ..... Assistant Secretary, Sacramento 



ASSOCIATE EDITORS 



GEO. p. WELDON - - - Chief Deputy Commissioner, Sacramento 



HARRY S. SMITH - . - Superintendent State Insectary, Sacramento 



FREDERICK MASKEW - - Chief Deputy Quarantine Officer, San Francisco 



Sent free to all citizens of the State of California. Offered in exchange for bulletins of 

 the Federal Government and experiment stations, entomological and mycological journal!, 

 agricultural and horticultural papers, botanical and other publications of a similar nature. 



Entered as second class matter December 28, 1911. at the post office at Sacramento, California, 



under the act of July 16, 1894. 



Friend Wu. Richardson, Superintendent of State Peintinq 



sacramento, califobnli 



1913 



