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It would be a matter of very considerable interest if I were able at this time to give 

 a more critical summary of the results achieved by our experinent station workers in 

 entomology. The little analysis which precedes shows a gratifying preponderance of 

 bulletins and reports which contain results of original work ; and yet at the same time we 

 must remember that while these papers advance our knowledge of entomological science, 

 the compilations may frequently accomplish greater practical good. This point is illus- 

 trated by a statement which I have from Prof. Garman, of the Kentucky station. He 

 says that Bulletin No. 40 of his station, containing condensed accounts of some of the 

 commoner and more injurious insects of the farm and garden, is the one for which there 

 has been the greatest demand. The original edition of 12,000 was soon exhausted, and 

 another lot has since been printed. The bulletin was prepared by request, and naturally 

 is not the sort of work which our station entomologists prefer to do. " Its success," 

 writes Prof. Garman, " has been a lesson to me as to what farmers want and will use." 



It occurred to me that it might be valuable to have a statement from each of the 

 experiment station entomologists as to the piece of work he had done which seemed to 

 have accomplished the most practical good, in the light of his own accurate information 

 concerning the farming population of his State. 1 therefore addressed letters to nearly 

 all of the station workers in entomology, but have received replies from only about half of 

 them, so that a statement of this kind would hardly be justified. It is interesting to 

 note, hov/ever, that experiment station workers place in very high esteem the results of 

 their correspondence w th farmers and of their lectures befoi-e farmers institutes and 

 other bodies. It is in these two ways that the popular sentiment among agriculturists as 

 to the importance of economic entomology is being much more rapidly spread than, 

 perhaps, by the publication of bulletins upon injurious insects. 



Canada 



The Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, for many years one of the most protninent writers on ento- 

 mology in Canada, and a well known contributor to the columns of the Canadian Farmer on 

 the subject of agricultural entomology, was largely responsible for the organization of the 

 Entomological Society of Ontario, and for the first appropriation of money made to that 

 society with a view to the development of economic entomology among our neighbors across 

 the border. The council of the Agriculture and Arts Associ ition of Ontario in 1869 voted 

 a grant of $400 to the Entomological Society of Ontario for the year 1870, on condition 

 that the Entomological Society should furnish an annual report, should found a cabinet 

 of insects, useful or prejudicial to agriculture and horticulture, to be placed at the 

 disposal of the council, and that it should also continue to publish the Canadian Ento- 

 mologist. This was the origin of the first annual report of the Ontario society, which 

 was published in 1871 by the Agricultural and Arts Association. This association also 

 gave the society $100 additional, and the Fruit-Growers' Association of Ontario $50 

 additional, to be used for the purpose of illustrating the report. During the session of 

 the Legislature of the Province of Ontario in 1870-71 the Agriculture and Arts Act was 

 passed. By this Act the Entomological Society of Ontario was incorporated, and a grant 

 of $500 per annum was made to it from the Provincial Treasury. In 1872 the Legisla- 

 ture made an extra grant of $200 for the purchase of woodcuts, etc., making the total 

 appropriation $700. In 1873 an extra grant of $500 was made, and the annual grant 

 for 1874 was increased to $750. In 1875 the grant was $750, plus $100 for illustrations ; 

 in 1876 $750, plus $500 towards the expense of an exhibit at the Centennial Exhibition 

 at Philadelphia ; in 1877, 1878, and 1879 it was $750 per annum, and in 1880 the grant 

 was increased to $1,000 at which sum it has continued since that date. The Government 

 also pays the expense of printing the annual report. 



The society has conscientiously complied with the conditions of the grant. Its 

 reports, published annually, have greatly increased in size and in the general interest of 

 their contents. They have contained much matter of economic value as well as of educa- 

 tional interest. 



