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instructions to fruit-growers and farmers as may tend to the improvement and 

 expansion of the fruit industry of the province." In addition (and this, as this title 

 would indicate, has proved to be- the chief duty of the officer), the Inspector of 

 Fruit Pests was required to carry out the Board's regulations relating to the pre- 

 vention of the introduction and spread of insect pests and plant diseases. The 

 first inspector was JVIr. R. M. Parker. It is largely due to the zeal and extraordinary 

 enthusiasm of the present Inspector of Fruit Pests, Mr. Thomas Cunningham, that 

 the Province is so remarkably free at the present time from such orchard insects as 

 the Codling Moth and San Jose Scale, to mention the most important, when other 

 newly-developed regions have succumbed to their invasion. The work is now carried 

 out under the Agricultural Associations Act of 1914. Formerly the fumigation 

 and inspection of imported uurseiy stock and plants was carried on by the Dominion 

 and Provincial Governments at Vancouver, but the duplication of work which 

 necessarily followed has been abolished by an arrangement whereby compliance 

 with the Dominion regulations is effected by the Provincial Inspectors of Fruit 

 Pests under the supervision and with the co-operation of the Dominion Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and the system is working admirably. 



In passing, mention should be made of the entomological work of Mr. J. R. 

 Anderson, formerly Deputy Minister of Agriculture, who has always been a keen 

 observer and has assisted in the development of applied entomology in the Pro- 

 vince. His bulletin on " Farmers' Foes and Their Remedies," published in 1908, 

 has done much to create an intelligent interest in the subject of insect pests in 

 the province. 



In the spring of 1913 Mr. W. H. Brittain .was appointed Provincial Entomo- 

 logist and Plant Pathologist under the Fruit Branch of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, but his removal to Nova Scotia in 191.3 caused a cessation of the investi- 

 gations on fruit insects which he had started, and which, with those carried out 

 by the Dominion Field Officer, Mr. Treherne, constituted the first serious efforts 

 on the study of practical entomological problems in the province. 



- I should include in this statement the investigatory work of Dr. Seymour 

 Hadwen, of the Health of Animals' Branch of the Dominion Department of Agri- 

 culture, who in the course of his study of animal diseases has been able to carry on 

 entomological work on insects affecting live stock, which studies have been pro- 

 ductive of excellent results, his work on the Warble flies (Hypoderma spp.) arid 

 ticks being particularly important. 



The provincial entomological work, apart from the insipection work under the 

 Provincial Horticultural Board, is being carried on at present by the Provincial 

 Plant Pathologist, pending, I venture to hope, the appointment of a Provincial 

 Entomologist, upon whom will devolve a large amount of highly important work 

 as British Columhia has many problems peculiar to itself. 



Nova Scotia. 



Although Nova Scotia is one of our oldest provinces where educational facili- 

 ties have always been exceptionally good, we do not find any early development of 

 practical entomology; indeed, the number of collectors in the province has never 

 been so jrreat as one would expect. From the establishment of the Provincial Agri- 

 cultural College, Truro, until 1912. Prof. H. W. Smith, Professor of Biology, under- 

 took anv local entomological work that might be required, such as replying to 

 enquiries regarding the control of insect pests, chiefly those affecting fririt. and 



