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important facts knowTi about each insect. The general plan is quite similar to that 

 used for most bulletins on this subject. 



Circular 95. A circular setting forth some rather striking spraying results in an 

 Ohio apple orchard. 



Circular 112. Commercial Apple Orcharding in Ohio. Summary of commercial 

 results obtained in a number of Ohio apple orchards tlirough a period of several con- 

 secutive years. 



Circular 115. The Chinch Bug. An emergency publication issued during a 

 summer of uncommon outbreak. 



Circular 137. Grasshoppers. Descriptive of hopper-dozer and discusses results 

 with same and criddle mixture in case of a local outbreak. 



Twenty-nine thought the bulletins sufficiently illustrated with photogi-aphs and 

 drawings against six who disagreed. Some of the remarks made in this connection 

 were as follows: — "Not all of them"; "Amply so"; "Very satisfactory"; "I believe 

 so"; "Some are, others not"; "I think most of them are." Four said, "I think so"; 

 Others, "Hardly; illustrations are always most acceptable"; "I think so, but better 

 too many than too few " ; " For the average person, you could well further illustrate " ; 

 and a number of others made remarks of similar tenor. 



Six emphasized the importance of the summary, four of them expressing a pref- 

 erence to have it in the front of the bulletin, while one believed it best to put it in the 

 back, because otherwise it encouraged omitting to read the body-contents. 



Various suggestions were made on the backs of the letters, most of which, we 

 supposed we had observed in the preparation of the bulletins, and probably could not 

 observe much better if we tried the second time; e.g., one thought each bulletin should 

 carry an index and table of contents in the front, and referred to bulletin 233, the 

 Fall Manual, as an example of defectiveness in this respect. If he received a perfect 

 copy of this bulletin, it has a very copious index which he may have overlooked because 

 of its being in the back. One farmer who said the entomological bulletins were not 

 generally read in his locality, explained why with this sentence: "Wheat, hogs and 

 corn seem to be all the farmers of this locality think about." One said, "Don't 

 send to farmers, bulletins intended chiefly for entomologists and scientists. " Most 

 of the answers indicated that the writers were reasonably well satisfied with the bulle- 

 tins as prepared by us, and a considerable fraction of them were distinctly commend- 

 atory. A number were worded very similar to this; "I could offer no suggestions 

 for bettering your bulletins, as they have all proven very interesting and instructive 

 to me by both cuts and substance." 



The third method by which I hoped to obtain some information as to the com- 

 parative popularity of our different bulletins was to ascertain the number of copies 

 of each that had been distributed during the past six years. However, owing to 

 certain changes, I am obliged to rely upon my own knowledge and recollection in 

 regard to the size of the different editions, and I cannot, therefore, be very definite. 

 At no time during the past six years has our regular mailing list been less than 50,000, 

 and it is at present approximately 60,000, so our regular edition for the run of a 

 bulletin is 65,000. This was the number run of bulletins 248, 251, 253 and circular 

 137, while 70,000 copies of 250, Some Ohio Birds, were printed. 



There are not more than 1,400 copies of No. 250 on hand, about 2,500 of No. 248 

 (Spraying Machinery Accessories) and something like 800 of No. 251 (Wheat Leaf 

 Miner), while the last copy of No. 253 (Household Insects) is gone; no full edition of 

 any bulletin has ever been more rapidly exhausted at the Ohio station . Of circular 

 No. 137 (Grasshoppers) 1,.500 are left. That, in .so many cases, the excess of 5,000 

 bulletins over the regular mailing fist is so quickly absorbed, signifies to us, possibly 

 wrongly, that somebody must want to read them, and so many people would not want 



