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State Crop Pest Commission 



OF LOUISIANA. 



_CiRC ULAR /ko. 13. April, 1907. 



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The Circulars of the State Crop Pest Commission are sent free of charge to all 

 farmers and fruit growers of Louisiana who make application therefor. 



REPORT 



UPON 



THE WORK OF THE STATE CROP PEST COI^IMISSION* 

 By WiLMON Newell., Secretary and Entomologist. 



Since the last meeting of tliis Commission, held September 

 25, 1906, a considerable number of changes in the working staff 

 has been made necessary by our inability, owing to lack of 

 appropriation by the last Legislature, to pay salaries sufficiently 

 large to induce competent men familiar with Southern conditions 

 to remain in our employ. The practical training which assistants 

 and inspectors obtain in the somewhat strenuous work conducted 

 by the Commission makes them valuable men for other States 

 and for other institutions doing similar work. 



The lack of funds has also compelled the entire abandonment 

 of important work and investigation along some lines, and has 

 greatly hampered and restricted our work in every direction. 

 I should like to review for you, briefly, the work that has been 

 under waj', and outline for you our present undertakings and the 

 plans of work for this season. 



♦Read before the Commission, at its meeting held at Baton Rouge., La, April 11, 1907. 



