WHOLE VOL. APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY HOWARD 1/9 



Texas: The Department of Agriculture has an Entomological Division, the 

 Chief being R. C. McDonald. 



Vermont: Under the Department of Agriculture, Harold L. Bailey carries 

 the title " Department Entomologist." There are also three Apiary Inspectors. 



Virginia: In the Department of Agriculture there is a Division of Botany 

 in which the Chief Botanist, G. Talbot French, is also State Entomologist. 

 There is an Assistant Entomologist. 



West Virginia: Under the Department of Agriculture is found W. E. Rumsey, 

 Entomologist. 



Wisconsin: Under the Department of Agriculture there is a Section of Insect 

 and Plant Disease Control, with E. L. Chambers as State Entomologist, and an 

 Assistant and a Chief Apiary Inspector. 



From this it appears that in 1928, 27 of the 48 States were employ- 

 ing one or more entomologists in their Departments or Boards of 

 Agriculture. And in each of these same States were one or more 

 other organizations, such as the State Agricultural College or the 

 State Agricultural Experiment Station, also employing entomologists. 

 In the other 21 States the entomological work is done by the officials 

 of the Agricultural Experiment Stations partly supported by the 

 Federal Government. There is, of course, some overlapping, and in 

 some of the States the chief entomologist of the State Experiment 

 Station also holds from the State Department of Agriculture the title 

 of State Entomologist. 



It is safe to say, however, that the bulk of the research work on 

 injurious insects in the United States is done by the officials of the 

 State Experiment Stations and by the force of the Bureau of Ento- 

 rriology of the United States Department of Agriculture. 



The Salaries of Entomologists 



To the physician, to the lawyer, to the commercial man, in fact to 

 almost every even moderately successful individual, the salaries paid 

 to entomologists in this country down to very recent times must have 

 seemed pitifully small, but those who held this estimate have over- 

 looked the fact that most of the men working in economic entomology 

 were engaged in the pursuit they loved best. In other words, they were 

 gaining a living, even though a poor one financially, by doing just 

 what they wanted to do. So that, instead of leading, as some have 

 expressed it, self-sacrificing lives for the benefit of the public, they 

 have really been leading in a way self-indulgent lives of pleasure 

 which might almost be termed selfish lives. 



It will be interesting to make a brief survey of the range of salaries, 

 in so far as the facts are available, during the last 50-odd years. We 

 have mentioned the compensation given to Harris for his report on 



