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State Departments of Agriculture and State Societies 

 Having Officials Paid by the State 



While Asa Fitch was entitled " State Entomologist " and was paid 

 a salary by the State his reports were published in the Transactions 

 of the New York State Agricultural Society and this Society was 

 responsible for his original appointment. His successors, both en- 

 titled State Entomologist, Dr. J. A. Lintner and Dr. E. P. Felt, were 

 stationed in the State Bureau of Education. 



Dr. A. S. Packard who was termed State Entomologist of Massa- 

 chusetts during 1870 and 1871 published his reports as parts of the 

 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of 

 Agriculture. 



B. D. Walsh, who published the first annual report on the noxious 

 insects of the State of Illinois, was called State Entomologist, but his 

 single report was published in the Transactions of the Illinois State 

 Horticultural Society for 1867. 



There have been other officials paid by the State, either connected 

 with the State Department or State Board of Agriculture, whose 

 reports were published in official documents or in the transactions of 

 large State boards or societies of agriculture or horticulture. The 

 famous nine reports by C. V. Riley on the insects of Missouri were 

 made to the State Board of Agriculture and were published by the 

 State in the Board reports. 



As we have seen in an earlier section of this book, entitled " The 

 Hatch Act," etc., there was, prior to 1880, apparently a State Ento- 

 mologist of Alabama, J. T. Humphreys, but I have been unable to 

 learn the facts, and I make this statement from the printed letterheads 

 used in correspondence with Washington. 



the development of entomology, perhaps especially from the experiment-station 

 standpoint, which is natural enough, since Doctor True was for many years 

 the head of the Office of Experiment Stations of the Department. In this state- 

 ment he mentions the following facts : In 1888 there were 25 men doing 

 entomological work in 20 Experiment Stations. In 1890 there were 35 ento- 

 mologists in 28 states. In 1894 the Experiment Stations in 42 States and Terri- 

 tories employed 28 entomologists and 40 other persons doing entomological work 

 in connection with zoology, botany, horticulture, etc. In 1912 there were loi ento- 

 mologists on the Station staffs, and not less than 112 persons were engaged in 

 entomological work in the Agricultural Colleges and State Universities. In 1912, 

 Doctor True states, the Federal and State funds devoted to instruction, research, 

 and inspection work aggregated about $1,600,000. We have shown in another 

 section that in 1912 the Federal Bureau of Entomology had an appropriation of 

 $601,920. There was, therefore, the sum of one million dollars during that year 

 spent by the States for " instruction, research, and inspection." 



