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demand for help is becoming very pronounced. This department has 

 taken up the subject and is offering courses in bee-keeping and is under- 

 taking investigations of problems of practical value to bee-keepers. 

 The state has an apiary inspection law which is under the supervision 

 of the State Board of Agriculture, but inadequate funds are provided 

 and the work is therefore badly neglected. The experiment station 

 is undertaking cooperative work with a view of lending some assistance 

 to this industry. 



In the future it shall be the aim of the writer to continue to expand 

 the work of this department to meet the various new demands made 

 on it, and with this increase of work it is hoped more help will be added 

 so that we can do more and better work in Missouri. The appoint- 

 ment of an entomologist at the fruit experiment station in southern 

 Missouri will help out, but there is still room for more entomologists. 

 The field for practical as well as technical work here is unsurpassed, 

 and it is a pleasure to labor under such conditions even with the small 

 means at one's disposal. The state grows cotton in the south, corn 

 and wheat in the north, and fruit everywhere; it has swamp, prairie 

 and mountainous conditions with a varied fauna and flora scarcely 

 touched by scientific students and as yet but slightly affected by the 

 economic entomologist. 



AN INCIDENT IN THE SEARCH FOR FOREIGN GIPSY MOTH 



PARASITES 



By L. O. Howard 



At a joint meeting of the Entomological Society of America and Sec- 

 tion F of the A. A. A. S., held at Atlanta December 31, the writer read 

 a paper on present conditions of the imported gipsy moth parasites 

 in the course of which he laid aside his manuscript for a moment to 

 tell an anecdote which he thought illustrated in a caj^ital way, not only 

 the difficulties to be met with in the field in a foreign country, but also 

 the necessity not only for a thorough knowledge of the subject, but for 

 imagination, fertility of resource, persistency, and energy on the part 

 of the investigator, if the best results are to be reached. 



After the meeting, and in fact during the discussion of the paper, 

 several persons present urged me to write this story for publication 

 in the Journal. I am afraid that Mr. Fiske would not like me to do 

 it, but he is out in Africa at present and I cannot well wait for his per- 

 mission. I think that Doctor Fernald and the others who asked me to 

 Avrite the story for publication can make such good use of it in their 

 teaching work that I shall overlook Fiske's possible objections, and 

 so here is the story about as I told it. It was apropos to a mention of 

 the present condition in this country of Limnerium disparidis. 



