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the Hessian fly, chestnut weevils, insects affecting pecans and other nuts, for the 

 control of insect carriers of plant diseases in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, and for enlarging the work on insecticides. It is also contemplated that 

 a field laboratory be estabUshed in the Ozark Mountain region in Arkansas and a field 

 station in one of the New England States for investigations of the apple-tree tent 

 caterpillar. 



The Arizona legislature has appropriated $42,000 for the biennium beginning 

 Jul}-, 1917, for the work of the state entomologist. Entomological work was organ- 

 ized in Arizona in 1909 with an appropriation of $3,000 supplemented by .S600 from 

 the Agricultural Experiment Station. Since then the successive legislatures have 

 increased the appropriations from $3,000 a year to $5,000, $12,000, $14,000 and 

 $21,000. The menace to the aKalfa crop by the introduction of the European alfalfa 

 weevil into the adjoining state of Utah and the rapid development of the Egyptian 

 cotton industry are factors largely responsible for the increasing interest shown in 

 entomological work in the state of Arizona. After July 1, 1917, it is planned to add 

 an assistant plant pathologist and a second assistant entomologist to the scientific 

 staff. 



Mr. Warren Knaus (class of 1882, Kansas State Agricultural College) has donated 

 to the Entomological Museum of the Kansas State Agricultural College his valuable 

 collection of Coleoptera. Ever since he was a student in the College, Mr. Knaus has 

 spent practically aU of his spare time and vacations in collecting and studying the 

 Coleoptera. He has made many trips into the arid regions of Mexico, Arizona, Texas, 

 and New Mexico to collect insects. These trips have been productive of a great 

 many new species. His collection contains a number of species that are only found 

 in one or two museums in the world, and these were furnished by Mr. KJnaus. His 

 ■collection will be kept as a separate one and will be known as the "Warren Ivnaua 

 Collection." 



An Insect Pest Survey and Information Service, has been undertaken by the State 

 Entomologist of New York in cooperation with the New York State Food Supply 

 Commission, the State College of Agriculture, the Farm Bureaus, the State Experi- 

 ment Station and other agricultural agencies. It is also cooperating with the Emer- 

 gency Entomological Service of the Federal Bureau of Entomology. 



The main purpose is to secure prompt and accurate reports from all sections of the 

 state, to summarize the information thus obtained, distribute it promptly and thus 

 promote the checking or prevention in large measure of the enormous losses inflicted 

 by insect pests. Particular emphasis is laid upon the initial signs of injury in order that 

 damage may be anticipated and the insects controlled. The project is closely articu- 

 lated with the control work in the field under the supervision of Messrs. Crosby and 

 Matheson of Cornell University, and plans now maturing may result in what is 

 practically an entomological patrol. The more important crops receive first atten- 

 tion, especially the insect enemies of potatoes, cereal and forage crops, truck and 

 garden crops and the important fruits. 



There are approximately one hundred observers reporting weekly and digests of 

 the information with special recommendations in regard to the various pests are 

 placed in the hands of the county representatives of the New York State Food Supply 

 Commission and other interested parties with the expectation that everj' reasonable 

 ■effort will be made to secure the general adoption of well-known and effective pre- 

 ventive or remedial measures. 



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