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the more I am convinced that we are in for a long siege with this pest. 

 Newly infested localities are constantly coming to light, and the old 

 ones are very slow in surrendering the advantage already gained. Yet 

 if every man owning any considerable number of acres of orchard would 

 provide himself with a good spray pump and the other necessary appli- 

 ances, and then use them intelligently both winter and summer, the 

 problem would be comparatively easy. Our Experiment Stations and 

 others have worked out successful remedies and have given the proper 

 methods of application, information concerning which may be had for the 

 asking. The office of the State Entomologist is intended to be a bureau 

 of information on matters of this kind, and under present conditions in 

 our own State, we can do little more than to advise as to the proper meth- 

 ods to pursue. It then becomes an individual matter. The fruit growers 

 themselves must furnish the materials and power to do the work. 



CONCERNING OTHER SPECIES OF INSECTS. 



No serious outbreaks of other injurious species have beeen reported to 

 me during the j^ear. The Hessian fly, which threatened to destroy the 

 wheat crop of 1903, did not materialize last spring so as to do serious 

 damage except in certain localities. A large part of this exemption was 

 doubtless due to tJie work of the Hessian fly parasite. The chinch bug, 

 was reported fi'om a few localities only. The excessive rains during the 

 early part of summer doubtless did much towards destroying the winter 

 broods, as it is a well known fact that the chinch bug can not stand 

 much wet weather. 



The canker worm was also reported as doing some injury in a few lo- 

 calities, but a few timely applications of Paris green was all that was 

 necessary. 



The corn-root worm, strange as it may seem, was also reported from a 

 few localities. It seems that there are still a few farmers who can 

 learn a lesson only by experience. The fact that this insect feeds only 

 upon the corn plant has been made known by the experiment stations. 

 Farmers' Institutes, newspapers and others for the past twenty years, 

 and yet there are some who will persist in raising corn after corn until 

 this insect compels them to change their methods of cropping. 



NURSERY INSPECTION. 



During the inspection period which extends from June 1st to October 

 1st, we have inspected 152 nurseries. These are scattered over sixty- 

 three counties, extending from the Ohio river to the Michigan line, and 

 they cover all the way from a half acre up to over 300 acres in extent. 

 All have been granted certificates. One has gone out of business on ac- 

 count of too close proximity to the San Jose scale, and ten have quit for 

 other reasons, and three have started in this year. 



