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Two visits were made to Massachusetts, as already stated in con- 

 nection with the gypsy moth and cranberry insect investigations, and 

 in October a visit was made to the Canadian Agricultural College at 

 Guelph and to the Experimental Farms at Ottawa, incidental to a 

 meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario. The usual relations 

 were maintained with the societies at New York, Brooklyn, Newark, 

 Philadelphia and Washington, and a meeting of the Cambridge Club 

 was attended in September. 



Institute work during the winter and attendance at State and 

 county board meetings and at other associations of farmers and fruit- 

 growers has kept the department in touch with the needs of the 

 agricultural community, so far as the insect questions are concerned, 

 and has enabled it to direct its work accordingly. 



The correspondence of the department during the calendar year of 

 1905 has been larger than ever before, covering 3,000 pages of letter- 

 book and representing upwards of 4,500 individual communications. 

 In fact, the routine work and preparing answers to questions has come 

 to occupy so large a proportion of the available time as to trench 

 seriously upon the necessary investigation work, 



ENTOMOLOGY IN THE CROP BULLETIN. 



Twenty-three numbers of the Crop Bulletin were issued between 

 April 11th and September 12th, 1905, and in all save three of them 

 insects of some kind were recorded as injurious. 



The San Jose scale was first referred to and held the record 

 throughout the season. April 11th the recorder summarizes as fol- 

 lows : "The outlook for orchard fruit is fairly good except in orchards 

 where the San Jose scale is prevalent. In places in Mercer county 

 many trees have been killed by this pest. Much spraying — more than 

 ever before at this season of the year — has been done." On the 17th, 

 two localities in Hunterdon county report the continuance of orchard 

 spraying for this pest. April 25th, Plainfield, Union county, and 

 Canton, Salem county, refer to the fact that the scale is infesting 

 their fruit trees. May 2d, South Bound Brook, Somerset county, 

 notes an increase in the numbers of this species. May 9th, Newton, 

 Sussex county, notes that there had been "some plum trees killed by 

 the San Jose scale." May 23d, the scale was killing "many trees" at 

 Paterson, in Passaic county, and on the 30th oi^ly trees spra3'ed for 



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