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bud moth, the codling moth, scales, and more particularly, 

 canker worm eggs. In the gizzard of a nuthatch I once found 

 1 ,629 eggs of the fall canker worm, representing at the most not 

 over one day's feeding. The summer birds are equally valuable 

 in destroying canker worms, tent caterpillars and other larvae. 

 The time is not far distant when the more general adoption of 

 nature study in our schools will lead to a new era in bird life. 

 In the meantime, by protecting your birds and teaching your 

 employees and your young people to do likewise, you will reap 

 ample returns from the time thus spent. 



In order that the farmer and the entomologist may best work 

 together, the farmer should familiarize himself with the habits 

 of the most common insects, by observation and reading or 

 studying some accurate, popular work upon the subject. The 

 treatises by Saunders, Weed and Smith are of this class and 

 cannot be too highly recommended. The Experiment Station 

 entomologist can furnish advice as to the habits and the remedies 

 necessary for the destruction of the various insect foes of fruit 

 and other crops. The farmer to get the most benefit from the 

 Station should freely consult the Station experts. Probably 

 Maine farmers do not make the mistake so common among 

 Massachusetts farmers, who do not avail themselves as they 

 ought of the advice of the Experiment Station workers and 

 teachers in the agricultural college. But, to be candid, I have 

 sometimes feared that here in Maine you did not appreciate 

 entomological work as highly as you ought, otherwise you would 

 not have allowed one of the country's most distinguished ento- 

 mologists to leave this State in order to assist Massachusetts 

 farmers in solving their entomological problems. However, 

 we would not criticise you in the least for Maine's loss has been 

 Massachusett's great gain ; and when such fears come to our 

 minds we soon realize that they are indeed groundless, since 

 were you unappreciative you would not have secured the ser- 

 vices of so able and learned a man as your present hard-worked 

 Station entomologist. And here let me venture the assertion 

 that should you avail yourselves more freely of his advice and 

 counsel, the ledger of your fruit growing transactions would 

 show a larger balance on the right side. 



Finally, let me impress upon you the profitableness of giving 

 your best thought and most Careful attention to the problem of 



