THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 20? 



PROVINCIAL ENTOxVIOLOGIST FOR ONTARIO. 



The O.itario DjpartmeiU of Agriculture his appointed Mr. Lawson 

 Caesar, B. A. and B. S. A (University of Toronto), Provincial Entomolo- 

 gist for Ontario. Mr Caesar will have charge of all the Inspection work 

 throughout the Province and will carry out investigations concerning the 

 depredations of insects and injuries caused by plant diseases. He will 

 continue his connection as Lecturer in the Department of Entomology at 

 the Ontario Agricultural College, during the winter months. This is the 

 first appointment of the kind to be made in Canada and will it is hoped be 

 followed by some of the other Provinces before very long. Mr. C?e?ar is 

 well known as an economic entomologist and as a Lecturer to Farmer's 

 Institutes and Meetings of Fruit Growers. He is also the writer of Bulle- 

 tins on the Lime-Sulphur Wash, The Cooling Moth, Little Peach Disease 

 and a Spraying Calendar. 



THE DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY, OTTAWA. 



It has been suggested that an account of the recent work and devel- 

 opments of the Division of Entomology of the Dominion Department of 

 Agriculture would be of interest to the readers of The Canadian Entom- 

 ologist. Believing this to be the case, the following notes have been 

 written for our entomological friends. 



The most important development of the activities of the Division is 

 the extension of the field work by means of field laboratories or stations. 

 It is obvious that work on the more serious insect pests occurring in 

 different parts of Canada could only be carried out in the regions where 

 such pests occur. The method of carrying on all investigations at the 

 Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, where the Division of Entomology is 

 located, not only had serious limitations but the results might not be ap- 

 plicable to local conditions. The Brown-tail Moth and its parasites must 

 be studied in the regions where the insect occurs ; so also in the case of 

 such pests as the Apple Maggot, the Bud moth and other pests. 



During the present season six field stations have been established. 

 In three cases the laboratory consists of a two-roomed portable cottage, in 

 one case the Ontario Department of Agriculture has given us the use of a 

 room in the Jordan Harbour Experiment Station and in the other two 

 cases temporary quarters at farm houses are being used. The stations and 

 work are distributed as follows: 



