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recognition and more experienced handling. The men in charge of 

 entomological work had had 13 years more of experience, and new 

 workers had been added from the colleges where the training of ento- 

 mologists had really begun for the first time between 1888 and 1894. 

 In my 1907 survey I found that the number of entomological publi- 

 cations of State Agricultural Experiment Stations had reached 

 1,300, of which 424 were reports, 839 were bulletins, 34 circulars and 

 3 apicultural bulletins. The stations had issued 941 reports in all, of 

 which about one-half, on a rough estimate, were entomological or con- 

 tained some entomological matter. The subjects of the bulletins and 

 circulars were found to be about as follows : insecticides and ma- 

 chinery, 251 ; compiled accounts of insects, 259; more or less origi- 

 nal observations, 356. 



Obviously, in the course of the 13 years, bulletins based on origi- 

 nal observations had increased very considerably in number. It is 

 perfectly obvious also that, not only at that time but even today, 

 compiled bulletins often have a greater practical value to the constit- 

 uency of a State Experiment Station that the bulletins giving the 

 results of original work. The original-work bulletins advance the 

 condition of the science ; the compiled bulletins extend the knowledge 

 of the results so as to make them more valuable to the people at large. 

 At that time the work of Forbes in Illinois, Felt in New York, and 

 Smith in New Jersey, among the State Entomologists, stood out. 

 And from that time on the quality and quantity of work done by the 

 State and Experiment Station officials have increased and improved 

 rapidly. Larger funds have been given to these institutions by their 

 respective States and by additional Federal appropriations. The 

 State men and the Federal men have come together year after year, 

 and cooperative work is going on in many directions. Many of the 

 State men have made sound scientific reputations, and the value of 

 the State work as a whole is very great. 



The Ofiice of Experiment Stations of the Federal Department of 

 Agriculture early began publication of the Experiment Station Rec- 

 ord, in which abstracts of all the publications of the Stations are given 

 from month to month. This publication has been of very great value. 

 Dr. W. A. Flooker, who for many years has been the editor of the 

 entomological and veterinary portions of the Record, has been good 

 enough to investigate for me the number of contributions on ento- 

 mology by experiment-station entomologists, including both State and 

 insular Federal stations, between the time of my 1907 summary 

 down to the end of June, 1928. He finds that there have been during 

 this period of 21 years 2,844 ^"ch publications. This account includes 



