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work because of the spotted fever tick, veterinary work because domestic 

 animals are involved in tick control, and the services of the board of 

 health because spotted fever is a disease of human beings. Member- 

 ship on the Board of Entomology is ex-officio and involves no addition- 

 al salaries excepting for actual services of assistants in research and 

 control work. The board members receive no compensation outside of 

 their regular salaries elsewhere in the State organization. The duties 

 of the State Entomologist have to do only with agriculture. The duties 

 of the Board of Entomology have to do only with the health of man 

 and domestic animals. 



THE DUTIES OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 

 MORE IN DETAIL 



The duties of the State Entomologist in the control of agricultural 

 insect pests will be better understood if presented somewhat more in 

 detail. As originally drawn it was the intention of the law to make 

 it possible for the Experiment Station entomologist to take his w T ork 

 into all the State and make it effective in the control of insect 

 pests. This was necessary and still is necessary because the w T ork of 

 controlling insect pests is technical in nature and little understood 

 by the public. The duties may be summarized under two headings : 

 first, the State Entomologist meets emergency outbreaks of grass- 

 hoppers, cutworms, and so forth: second, he assists in the prevention 

 of a large number of less important losses. There is always enough 

 to do to keep him profitably occupied even if there are no emergency 

 outbreaks, but for the last decade there has been scarcely a year in 

 which there was not an emergency of major importance in the State. 

 He cooperates witli the county agents in counties where there are 

 such agents and with other officials, such as Smith-Hughes teachers, 

 county pest control leaders, and county clerks in counties where there 

 are no county agents. He is the State leader in carrying out the pro- 

 visions of the county insect pest law. (Political Code, 1921, sections 

 4501-4505). He takes the results of the research and experimental 

 work on insect pests from our own Experiment Station and from other 

 experiment stations to the farmers of the State. He conducts an ex- 

 tensive correspondence throughout the year on the control of insect 

 pests in all branches of agriculture. He accumulates information on 

 the sources of supplies, such as arsenic and the other ingredients of 

 the grasshopper poison. He looks up spraying material and issues 



