58a EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



over three billions of descendants in a single year (Bulletin 

 4, Division of Entomology, United States Department of Agri- 

 culture) it can hardly be anticipated that spraying for this 

 insect can be omitted. 



The correspondence during the year has been fully as large 

 as heretofore, and many insects sent in have been species of 

 which little is known. This has necessitated a large amount of 

 research, and often the rearing of the insects before satisfactory 

 information as to methods of control could be furnished. 



Insects found by the nursery inspectors of the State on im- 

 ported nursery stock are sent to this station for identification, 

 and this phase of the work, being quite novel, has also taken 

 considerable time. A number of foreign pests not at present 

 established in this country have been discovered in this way. 



The collections have constantly increased in size and value. 

 There are now probably considerably over 100,000 pinned speci- 

 mens, besides many samples of work done by insects, a large 

 number of mounted slides and many alcoholic specimens. The 

 proper care of a collection of this size, and of adding to it 

 material collected each year, is sufficient to occupy the entire 

 time of one man. At present it is partially attended to vas 

 opportunity offers. The time is rapidly approaching when it 

 must receive more attention or 2"reatlv lose in value. 



