REPORT OF ENTOMOLOGIST. 



W. E. HUNDs. 



Dr. C. C. Thach, 



President Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala. 



Sir: — ^Tlie following report relates to the work of the 

 LRepartmeut of Entomology in the Experiment Station for 

 the fiscal year 1909: 



Work during the past year has continued mainly along 

 the lines inaugurated during 1908. There has been no 

 change in the working forces. Mr. W. F. Turner, as Assis- 

 tant, has given nearly all of his time to the routine station 

 work, and especially to the Adams Fund investigation pro- 

 jects. 



Correspondence. — Inquiries regarding the control of in- 

 sect pests have increased during the past year, indicating 

 that there is a general advance in agricultural and horti- 

 cultural information along these lines. The entomologist 

 has received and answered somewhat more than 1,200 let- 

 tere during the year. 



Publications. — During the year 1909, the Department of 

 Entomology has isisued two bulletins and one circular. Bul- 

 letin No. 144, entitled ''The San Jose Scale and Lime Sul- 

 phur Wash," has been quite largely in demand. Bulletin No. 

 146, entitled ''Facing the Boll Weevil Problem in Ala- 

 bama," was designed to prepare cotton planters for the 

 advent of the boll weevil, and this publication will be in- 

 creasingly useful as the boll weevil enters the state. Cir- 

 cular No. 3 gives a list of "Manufacturers and Dealers in 

 Insecticide Materials and Spraying Apparatus," for dis- 

 tribution in correspondence. 



Besides these regular Station publications, the Entomol- 

 ogist has published articles in the reports of the State De- 

 partment of Agriculture at Montgomery, two articles in 

 the Journal of Economic Entomology, besides brief notes 

 in the Southern Farm Oazette. 



