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own field, and each made notable contributions to the literature of 

 entomology, with which their names are firmly associated. Aside from 

 their individual efforts in their respective fields, their work considered 

 collectively takes on impressive proportions from the magnitude and 

 the importance of the consequences of their endeavors in behalf of 

 agriculture. That organizations of influential farmers and of men of 

 prominence in agriculture and public affairs made the effort to open 

 a new era by creating sentiment to encourage and support entomology 

 by legislative enactment possesses of itself great significance. Then, 

 also, the appointment of these men to official positions marks the 

 definite turning of entomology for the benefit of agriculture — the pass- 

 ing out of the stage of mere amateurism into a serious and widespread 

 endeavor to make entomology really serviceable to the people. With- 

 out eulogizing the achievements of these pioneer workers at the expense 

 of critical justice, it must be admitted that their efforts constitute a 

 remarkable period in applied entomology, which did much to impress 

 the public with the value of this study and give it a degree of impor- 

 tance and stability, which it has retained. In the development of new 

 agencies adapted to the needs of country life, which was foreshadowed 

 at this time by the general agitation by various state agricultural 

 societies and other organizations of farmers for institutions for teach- 

 ing and experimenting in agriculture, entomology w^as given recogni- 

 tion with other agricultural subjects. 



Entomology Prominent in Federal Aid to Agriculture 



In that which has preceded attention has been directed to some of 

 the steps by which entomology was brought to the aid of agriculture 

 and came to have rank with other departments of science in the agri- 

 cultural field. In such a small compass, it has obviously been im- 

 possible to bring out many facts of interest or discuss in detail the 

 achievements of individual workers, all of which have been sacrificed 

 to the desire of exhibiting the major events in bold relief, — to show 

 more clearly the great changes which have since taken place in ento- 

 mology, to which my discussion now narrows. Since the days of 

 Harris, Fitch, and Riley in Missouri, entomology has developed along 

 distinct and in some respects, quite unique lines. This has been 

 largely due to the far-reaching modern movements of agricultural 

 education and investigation which has taken place with the rise and 

 growth of the national Department of Agriculture and the land-grant 

 colleges and associated experiment stations. By virtue of the achieve- 

 ments of its early workers in scientific and economic research, entomol- 

 ogy became a constituent part of the work of these new agencies in 

 behalf of agriculture by the establishment in the national Department 

 of Agriculture of a Division, now Bureau, of Entomology, while in 



