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was not instituted without ridicule and opposition, but it has saved millions to our com- 

 merce and agriculture. The maintenance of an entomological commission and the ap- 

 pointment of State entomologists would involve comparatively little expense. Already, 

 owing to the full information regarding the invasion of Missouri by the locust in 1874, 

 contained in the reports of Prof. C. V. Kiley, the people of that State will be well prepared 

 from the direful experience of the paist, to deal more intelligently and eflSciently with the 

 locust for the future. 



