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determine at once from the numbered pieces into what shipping cases 

 or boxes they are meant to be packed. From a legal standpoint the 

 Entomological Exhibit always remains the property of the Depart- 

 ment of Entomology and, while the Department in charge of these 

 Fair Exhibits is held accountable by 'the Station authorities for a. 

 careful administration of the trust committed to it, no legal claim for 

 loss would obtain against the Cooperative Department for damage 

 sustained by the exhibit while in its care. 



Always at the State Fair, and occasionally at a county fair, some 

 member or members of the entomological staff of the Station are 

 present with the exhibit for the purpose of assisting in installing the 

 same and to answer entomological queries ; but at nearly all of the 

 county fairs this work is performed by employes of the Cooperative 

 Department, who try to acquaint themselves with the different fea- 

 tures of the exhibit so as to be able to answer the questions most 

 likely to be asked concerning it. Such questions as they are unable 

 to answer are noted down, and sent to our office at Wooster, from 

 which a reply is sent by mail. The large number of letters of- inquiry 

 we receive direct from constituents soon after the exhibit has been 

 shown at their county fair, fui'nishes evidence that many people have 

 learned for the first time that there is a public information bureau 

 supported by the government and state, which they have a right to 

 consult by mail for information which they previously supposed to 

 be inaccessible to them. 



Dismissing these preliminary observations of a general nature, let 

 us now consider more specifically the Entomological Exhibit. We 

 have not yet attained our ideal in the makeup of the display and prob- 

 ably never will fully reach it. We find it still more difficult to get a 

 satisfactory setting-up of the different features in the space that often 

 falls to us in county buildings and tents. We work toward the unit 

 idea in preparing the exhibit, but questions of expediency constantly 

 interfere with perfectly working out the plan. We try to group in- 

 one place, when setting up, those insects which affect small grains, 

 again together those which affect fruits, and likewise, those which 

 affect garden products, etc. ; these displays again being subdivided 

 into cases of insects which, for instance, attack wheat, or corn, or 

 apples. So far as possible the enlarged bromide pictures are placed 

 just behind and above the insect displaj^s which illustrate similar 

 subjects. However, other factors than those of mere utility have 

 seemed to us to deserve more or less consideration in preparing and 

 displaying such an exhibit. A case of brilliant butterflies and moths 

 will sometimes cause the passerby to stop for a closer view, and he 



