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NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Three biUletins have been issued from this department since the 

 date of the last report-No. 178, on "Insecticide Experiments for 

 1904 •" No. 181, on "Insects Injurious to Shade Trees and Ormi- 

 mental Plants," and No. 186, on ^'Late Eall Spraying for the San 

 Jose or Pernicious Scale." . _t , ^i 



The work of tlie State Entomologist has been continued along the 

 same lines as in previous years, and eighty-one certificates were issued 

 to .rowers or dealers in nursery stock. Not over a dozen nursery 

 blocks, mostly peaches, proved to be so badly infested as to be un- 

 salable, and Ihese were destroyed. Altogether many t-sand of 

 infested trees were kept out of the market, and the quaUty of .tock 

 It out has been materially improved. Mr. Edgar L. Diekerson » 

 still in office as assistant and Miss A. E. Meske as stenographer ad 

 office aide. A full report of the work done in this capacity will b. 

 made to the State Board of Agriculture. i,,. ,,;«•„. 



The mosquito investigation has been continued on somewhat diffei- 

 ent lines, under Chapter 80, Laws of 1905, and a detaied statement 

 !f what has been accomplished forms another section of this report 

 (Somewhat out of line with the general scope of the department 

 work was the investigation and treatment of the New Brunswick 

 water-supply with sulphate of copper to control the <levelapm nt of 

 alsa. ancl other organisms that tended to cause bad smells and ta.te.. 

 A special report on the results obtained, which were very satistactorj , 

 was made to the Director. ^- 3 ■„ «,„ 



The mosquito collection installed at St. I^™-' ^ "^^^ ^.f;",; 

 1904 report, was transferred at the close of the farr to the State 

 Hoi at T enton, where it was set up in a somewhat different .shap 

 "nd material additions were made. It now forms a pernianen feature 

 "the State Museum, and as such has attracted cons^erable atten- 

 tion A number of boxes have been made up during the year out of 

 he office collection, to add to this Museum, which is now of ons d- 

 erab e extent and some scientific value on the »tomo og.cal side^ 

 Tlie .general collections of the office have increased greatly and large 

 TddiU ns have been made to the storage capacity of the epartment 

 As to equipment and general outfit, the department , n better 

 condition than ever before, and little more can be demanded at pre.- 

 ent-in the way of laboratory facilities. 



