REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 143 



the life history and a review of about thirty-five experimental tests 

 of insecticidal substances. 



(b) Work on the wood licks of the State, especially in 

 the Bitter Root Valley. 



(c) Grasshoppers in cultivated crops. 



(d) Insect pests of fruits. 



(e) Miscellaneous tests of insecticides. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



It is our plan, in cooperation with the Montana 

 Experiment Station, to issue a series of circulars for the purpose of 

 putting in easily available form the most essential information con- 

 cerning the leading pests of the State. Two have already been issued, 

 as follows : — 



1. The army cutworm. 



2. Pear and apple blight in Montana (by Deane B. Swingle). 

 The following are in course of preparation and will be issued 



when completed: — ■ 



i. Colorado potato beetle. 



2. The leading insect pests of the cabbage. 



3. Arsenical insecticides. 



4. The home preparation of lime-sulphur solutions. 



5. The apple leaf aphis- 



6. The leading pests of our principal shade trees. 



7. Mites affecting fruit trees in Montana. 



8. Grasshoppers. 



9. Oyster shell scale, 

 io- Spraying machinery. 



11. Control of the bedbug. 



12. House flies. 



AN INCREASED APPROPRIATION NEEDED. 



The State Entomologist now receives an appropriation of $500, 

 which is used principally as a traveling fund, but which is available 

 also for miscellaneous expenses of the office and laboratory. With 

 the growth of the agricultural interests of the State, principally in the 

 orchard industry, the requests for information have been greatly 



