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Departments of Agriculture. Reference has already been made 

 to the work carried on by the Provinces of British Columbia 

 and Ontario under their respective statutes. 



The Province of Ontario has always been in the forefront in 

 Canada in regard to taking steps for the control of insect pests. 

 This is due, to no small extent, to the fact that there exists in 

 the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, which is maintained 

 by the Provincial Government, an excellent Entomological 

 Department, in which men are trained in this work, and are 

 available for employment either by the Provincial or by the 

 Dominion Departments of Agriculture. The Entomological 

 Department of the College also serves as a bureau of information 

 in the control of insect pests for the province, and the members 

 of the staff carry on an active educational campaign. The 

 Province of Nova Scotia carries on similar work, though to a 

 less degree, in that Province. The Macdonald Agricultural 

 College in Quebec, though a branch of McGill University, and 

 supported by the endowment of its founder, carries on entomo- 

 logical work in the Province of Quebec ; it is not supported, 

 however, by the Provincial Government. 



From this account of the problem of the control of insect 

 pests in Canada, and the methods by which it is being attacked, 

 some idea will be gained of its magnitude and the many interests 

 with which it is concerned. The dependence of agriculture and 

 forestry, to name Canada's greatest national assets, on scientific 

 investigation, is becoming increasingly an acknowledged fact, 

 and the people of Canada are recognising the fact, pointed out 

 by the Right Hon. Earl Grey in opening the first meeting of the 

 Conservation Commission of Canada, " that the future prosperity 

 of Canada depends upon scientific research and upon the efficient 

 application of the results of that research to the industrial and 

 physical lives of the people." 



