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gardeu, is the oue for which there has been the greatest demand. The 

 original edition of 12,000 was soon exhausted, and another lot has since 

 been printed. The bulletin was prepared by request, and naturally is 

 not the sort of work which our station entomologists prefer to do. " Its 

 success," writes Prof. Garman, "has been a lesson to me as to what 

 farmers want and will use." 



It occurred to me that it might be valuable to have a statement from 

 each of the experiment station entomologists as to the piece of work 

 he had done which seemed to have accomplished the most practical 

 good, in the light of his own accurate information concerning the farm- 

 ing population of his State. I therefore addressed letters to nearly all 

 of the station workers in entomology, but have received replies from 

 only about half of them, so that a statement of this kind would hardly 

 be justified. It is interesting to note, however, that experiment station 

 workers place in very high esteem the results of their correspondence 

 with farmers and of their lectures before farmers' institutes and other 

 bodies. It is in these two ways that the popular sentiment among agri- 

 culturists as to the importance of economic entomology is being much 

 more rapidly spread than, perhaps, by the publication of bulletins upon 

 injurious insects. 



CANADA. 



The Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, for many years one of the most prominent 

 writers on entomology in Canada, and a well-known contributor to the 

 columns of the Canadian Farmer on the subject of agricultural ento- 

 mology, was largely responsible for the organization of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of Ontario, and for the tirst appropriation of money 

 made to that society with a view to the development of economic ento- 

 mology among our neighbors across the border. The council of the 

 Agricultural and Arts Association of Ontario in 1869 voted a grant of 

 $400 to the Entomological Society of Ontario for the year 1870, on con- 

 dition that the entomological society should furnish an annual report, 

 should found a cabinet of insects, useful or prejudicial to agriculture 

 and horticulture, to be placed at the disposal of the council, and that it 

 should also continue to publish the Canadian Entomologist. This was 

 the origin of the first annual report of the Ontario society, which was 

 published in 1871 by the Agricultural and Arts Association. This 

 association also gave the society $100 additional, and the Fruit-Grow- 

 ers' Association of Ontario $50 additional, to be used for the purpose 

 of illustrating the report. During the session of the legislature of the 

 Province of Ontario in 1870-'71, the agriculture and arts act was 

 passed. By this act the Entomological Society of Ontario was incor- 

 porated, and a grant of $500 per annum was made to it from the pro- 

 vincial treasury. In 1872 the legislature made an extra grant of $200 

 for the purchase of woodcuts, etc., making the total appropriation $700. 

 In 1873 an extra grant of $500 was made, and the annual grant for 1874 



