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those for "^^llose benefit they were made. If every applicatiom 

 can not bo met, it is piobably owing to the fact that the demand 

 hitherto, has not been sufficiently large to warrant larger editions. 

 There is assuredly one publication which should be procurable 

 by every farmer who will ask for it, viz.: The valuable illus- 

 trated report of the Entomologist of the UE.ited States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Professor C. V. Riley. Of this report, 

 contained in the annual report of the Commissioner of Agricul- 

 ture, 425,000 copies are ordered by Congress, each year, but it 

 is feared a large proportion of these never leave Washington, 

 except as entering into the composition of other paper. The 

 Department has also issued two reports of the United States 

 Entomological Commission, seven bulletins of the same Com- 

 mission, and eighteen bulletins of the Entomological Division. 

 It is also issuing, at the pi'esent time through the Division 

 of Entomology, an interesting and instructive periodical, 

 under the name of "Insect Life." Some of the above miay be 

 stni procurable through application to the Commissioner, or to 

 I'rofes,?or Eiley, or to your "Representatives in Congress. 



The reports of Dr. Fitch, published in the Transactions of the 

 New York State Agricultural Socieiy, for the years 1854 to 1870, 

 are of special value. Six of these reports, bound in two ^^lumes, 

 may still be obtained of the Secretary of the Agricultural Society, 

 at Albany, 



G'he reports of the State Entomologists of Missouri and of 

 Illinois are also very desirable. For these, application with inquiry 

 might be made to Professor Riley, at Washington, and to Professor 

 S. A. Forbes, at Champaign, Illinois. 



A volume that would seem to be indispensable to the fruit- 

 grower, is "Insects Injurious to Fruits," by W. Saundei's, pub- 

 lished in 1883,* by the J. B. Lipi'incott Company, Philadelphia, 

 Pa., 436 pages, 440 figures. A recent publication of particular 

 value to the student as an aid to classification, and prepared 

 specially for the agricultural student, is "An Introduction to 

 Entomology," b}^ J. H. Comstock, Professor of Entomology in Cor- 



* A second edition has since been published . 



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