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attending meetings of fruit-growers and agriculturists. He also contributed articles 

 on applied entomology to the Annual Report of the Provincial Department of 

 Agriculture. Li 1900, following the activities of the Dominion and Ontario De^ 

 partments of Agriculture, the Provindial Government passed a San Jose Scale Act, 

 but no enforcement of the provisions of the Act were required. 



The necessity of possessing wider powers, indicated by the introduction of 

 the Brown-tail Moth, led to the passage of the Injurious Insect Pest and Disease 

 Act in 1911. This Act was more comprehensive and enables the ProvinciaJl De- 

 partment of Agriculture to appoint inspectors and to take the necessary steps to 

 prevent the introduction of and eradicate insect pests. This measure was passed 

 none t«o soon, for in 1913 Mr. G, E. Sanders, of the Dominion Entomological Ser- 

 vice, discovered San Jose Scale in the province, into which it had been introduced 

 on nursery stock from Ontario. It is an ill wind that hlows no one any good, and 

 again the discovery of a serious insect pest led to necessary progress in applied ento- 

 mology. Not only did the Nova Scotian Government appoint a Provincial Ento- 

 mologist in 1912, in the person of Dr. E. Matheson, but the Ontario Government 

 recognized the need of such an official to have charge of the nursery insipeotion. 

 Dr. Ma)theson organized an inspection service, and it is largely due to the ener- 

 getic measures taken by him in eradicating infested trees that the Scale has been 

 pratically exterminated in the Province. Dr. Matheson returned to Cornell Uni- 

 versity in 1913, and was succeeded by Mr. W. H. Brittain, who now occupies the 

 position of Provincial Entomologisit and Professor of Entomology in the Provincial 

 Agricultural College. 



In addition to the San Jose Scale inspection work carried on by the Provincial 

 Department of Agriculture, the Province co-operates with the Dominion Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in the work against the Brown-tail Moth, for which work the 

 latter Department is responsible, by supplying an equal number of inspectors to 

 those employed by the Dominion. 



The prospects for applied entomology in the Province are unusuallv bright; 

 there are many important problems awaiting solution and much educational work 

 is necessary. Already the joint efforts of ^Ir. Brittain and the Dominion Field 

 Officer, Mr. G. E. Sanders, who has charge of the Brown-tail Moth work in the 

 Province, have had a marked effect, particularly in the direction of increased efforts 

 on the part of the fruit-growers, not only to control insect pests but to do so inn 

 telligently. . 



Quehec. 



While insect pests have not spared the fields and forests of Quebec during 

 its development, the progress of ideas in regard to the scientific control of insect 

 pests has been slow. Although the Abbe Leon Provancher was a most industrious 

 student and a prolific worker on the insects of Quebec, he did not concern 

 himself with the practical application of entomological knowledge, (but confined 

 his attention to the collection and classification of insects of the Province, in which 

 work he persevered in spite of lack of accesis to literature and other collections. The 

 results of his efforts are evident in the pages of " Le Naturaliste Canadien," which 

 he founded in 1869, and in which he commenced his " Faune Entomologique du 

 Canada" in 1874, which he completed in 1890. two years before his death. 



Prior to the establishment of Macdonald College, in 1907, and the location 

 of a Dominion Entomological Laboratorv at Covey Hill, Que., in 1912. T do not 

 know of anv investigations on insect pests. For a number of years, however, Mr. 



