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outbreak of an injurious insect. The Fruit Branch has similar 

 correspondents reporting the conditions in regard to the fruit 

 crops, and they also are asked concerning insect injuries. By 

 these means the Division is in communication with practically 

 every section of the Dominion, and is kept well infromed as to 

 the occurrence of injurious insects affecting farm and fruit crops. 



With so vast an area it is necessary to study the insects and 

 the methods of control in the regions where they occur ; the life 

 history of an insect in Quebec will probably differ from its life 

 history in British Columbia, and the methods of control must be 

 adopted according to such differences. Field Stations are being 

 established in different regions in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, 

 Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia for the study of fruit 

 insects, and it is hoped to establish one in the western provinces 

 for the study of insects injurious to cereals. 



One of Canada's most valuable reserves are the forests. The 

 forest area is estimated at about one and a quarter million square 

 miles, of which about four hundred thousand square miles are 

 covered with merchantable timber. In 1910 over three and a 

 half million dollars' worth of pulpwood were produced. As 

 injurious insects form one of the chief foiest-destroying agencies, 

 the important relationship which forest entomology bears to the 

 question of the conservation of the forests needs no emphasis. 

 This study of forest insects has not received in the past the 

 attention its importance warrants, but an Assistant Entomologist, 

 who is a recognised authority on the bark beetles — the most 

 destructive of forest insects — has been appointed with the inten- 

 tion of developing this branch of entomological work. The 

 officers and forest rangers of the Forestry Branch of the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior are co-operating in the work by making field 

 observations and reports on forest insects. 



A large number of enquiries are received concerning 

 apiculture, and an apiary is kept for experimental purposes. 

 Increasing attention is being devoted to bee-keeping throughout 

 Canada, and with the development of the fruit-growing industry, 



