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manner to meet the entire pest situation as it exists in the State. The 

 means which we have had in the past have been wholly inadequate 

 and we have been unable to make the savings that might be made. 



Through the appropriate channels estimates for the work of this 

 office have been presented for the consideration of the legislature. 

 The total sum requested is $9300 per year, which will enable us to 

 again have an assistant in the office, pay his traveling expenses, se- 

 cure temporary assistants when emergencies arise and pay their ex- 

 penses to act under the direction of the Assistant State Entomologist. 

 This fund will also provide for office and laboratory expenses on a 

 very moderate basis. It should be borne in mind in this connection 

 that the State Entomologist is the entomologist of the Experiment 

 Station and professor of entomology at the College. It is impossible 

 for him alone to carry out the provisions of the State Entomologist 

 law. The assistant is the active agent and works under the direction 

 of the head of this department who coordinates all of the services in 

 entomology in the institution. This duty was added to the Experiment 

 Station entomologist in the interest of general economy in the State. 

 Many states have a separate office to carry this work and it is often 

 located at the state capital. Such an office requires an extensive 

 equipment and a personnel to do the work. There must be a library, 

 a collection of insects, and scientific equipment. Under the arrange- 

 ment in force in Montana we have been able to avoid duplication of 

 a library and large expense in accumulating insect collections and 

 equipment. There are certain other advantages in the centralization 

 of this highly specialized type of service. The Experiment Station 

 has been kept constantly in touch with the needs of the State, and the 

 search work that has been conducted has a much more direct bearing 

 upon the needs of Montana agriculture than might well have been the 

 ease had the two not been officially connected. 



COOPERATION OF RAILWAYS 

 Early in the season application was made to the railroads doing 

 business in Montana to grant a half rate on supplies used by the 

 farmers in making the poisoned bran mash to be used in killing 

 grasshoppers. Rates were granted by the Great Northern, -Northern 

 Pacific, and Butte, Anaconda and Pacific railroads. No request was 

 made of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Pan! because we knew of no 

 grasshopper difficulties iii the portions of the State where that road 



