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ferent State institutions. That will be taken for granted, and indeed 

 to follow the progress in each State would be a task I could not 

 possibly undertake. In previous sections I have expressed my high 

 opinion of the work done in the State Experiment Stations, in the 

 State Agricultural Colleges, and by the other State workers. The 

 results reached by these individuals and institutions have been pub- 

 lished and are all matters of record, easily consulted and widely known 

 and appreciated among the economic entomologists of the world. 

 Therefore details should really not be expected in this volume. 



Of course, the workers under the Federal Government apparently 

 have great advantages over the others. As against the men in the 

 Agricultural Colleges they have apparently the advantage of undivided 

 time — they have no teaching to do. As against the workers in the 

 Experiment Stations and in the offices of the rare State Entomologists 

 they have the advantage of greater numbers and of greater financial 

 means. The purchase of apparatus, the access to great collections and 

 to an extremely comi>etent library, the possibility of buying at once 

 everything needed, are undoubtedly great advantages. The constant 

 meeting with fellow workers for purposes of consultation and encour- 

 aging conversations is more possible with the Federal men. There is 

 in fact only one drawback about the Federal work, and that is that 

 as soon as a man displays especial ability that seems to point towards 

 administrative capacity he is put ahead and soon finds his time so occu- 

 pied by the red tape of Government methods that his time for research 

 is greatly lessened. 



Nevertheless, as we look over the field for the past 30 years it must 

 be admitted that not only have the States brought out a great mass 

 of valuable results, but that in comparison this mass has equaled in 

 importance that coming from Federal laboratories. 



This would be the place for a somewhat detailed consideration of 

 the growth and accomplishments of each State station, so that the 

 accomplishments of the grou]) as a whole could be contrasted with 

 those of the Federal Bureau. I'.ut 1 have not the time or the facilities 

 for a proper study of this kind, nor is there room to print it in this 

 perhaps too broadly planned volume. Future writers will do this ; and 

 in fact in each station some one some day will display historically the 

 achievements of his own service. The day will come when a record 

 of the valuable work done in each State organization will fill a book 

 as big as this one.' 



* Dr. A. C. True, in his excellent " History of Agricultural Education in the 

 United States 1785-1925 " (Miscellaneous Publication No. 11 of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture), gives three pages to a cursory account of 



