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system of county agents, provides an effective organization for this 

 service and has resulted in the saving of millions of dollars to the 

 farmers of the state of Montana. They have thereby been better able 

 to meet their banking and other obligations and to pay their taxes 

 during the period of stress through which the State has been passing. 



THE INSECTICIDE AND FUNGICIDE ACT 



The insecticide and fungicide act (Political Code of 1921, sec- 

 lions 2600-2614) provides that "it shall be the duty of the State 

 Entomologist upon the advice and under the direction of the director 

 of the Experiment Station to collect from time to time and deliver 

 to the director of the Experiment Station specimens of insecticides, 

 paris greens, lead arsenates, and fungicides in unbroken original pack- 

 ages, manufactured or offered for sale in the state of Montana, for the 

 purpose of determining whether or not such insecticides, paris greens, 

 lead arsenates, and fungicides are adulterated or misbranded within 

 the meaning of this act." 



This act is coordinate with the Federal insecticide act of 1910, the 

 language of which is followed closely in the Montana act. It pro- 

 tects the State against the manufacture and sale within its boundary 

 of adulterated and misbranded insecticides and fungicides. 



COOPERATION WITH THE STATE DEPARTMENT 

 OF AGRICULTURE 



Cooperation of the Agricultural College and the Experiment 

 Station with the Stale Department of Agriculture is provided for in 

 section 7 of their act (chapter 216, 217, Session Laws of 1921.) 



In practice it has worked out that the State Entomologist is co- 

 operating rather extensively with the State Department of Agricul- 

 ture and this office lias received very much assistance from that de- 

 partment which it is very pleased to acknowledge. 



In an informal manner the State Entomologist cooperates without 

 specific authority in law with various other departments and agencies 

 in the Slate. 



NEEDS FOR THE COMING BIENNIUM 



The interruption of the work of the State Entomologisl by the 

 suspension of the funds during the biennium now closing was a 

 serious matter and difficult to bridge over. Through the cooperation 

 of the State Bankers' Association a fund was provided to meet the 



