SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. S5 



POLICY REGARDING PUBLICATIONS. 



The state law providing for the office of State Entomologist 

 requires that the entomologist shall make an annual report to the 

 Governor, which report shall be published by the Experiment 

 Station as one of its regular bulletins and "shall contain a report of 

 his work and expenditures under this act." The salary oi the ento- 

 mologist is paid from federal funds by the Experiment Station and 

 since the enactment of the state entomologist law the entomsologist 

 of the Experiment Station has been placed on the Adams salary 

 roll and is occupied largely with research work. This has prevented 

 the accumulation of such material as was published in the first re- 

 ports of the state entomologist and has caused a general change in 

 the policy regarding publications. 



The activities of the station and state entomologist fall natur- 

 ally under two heads, which we m^ay term (a) practical and (b) 

 scientific. It is expected of the entomologist that he shall at all 

 times hold himself in readiness to give information regarding the 

 practical treatment of insect pests of all kinds, and that in times of 

 insect outbreaks he shall publish or make demonstrations of the 

 best remiedies to be employed. With no less practical ultimate ends 

 in view he is expected to search out the information necessarily 

 obtained before pests can be intelligently fought. In connection 

 with such research work, valuable technical information is received 

 which may be of no present interest to the practical farmer or fruit 

 grower. The Adams act, in unmistakable language, requires that 

 work done under its rules shall be of a fundamental nature, and that 

 the problems attacked be new ones. 



It is plain, therefore, that we are required to issue two kinds 

 of publications, viz., those for the practical man and those of inter- 

 est only to the scientist. 



We have long realized that such a distinction was desirable 

 and some Experiment Stations in the United States have for years 

 been issuing two series of bulletins. Our experience! during the 

 past few years in Montana has emphasized the desirability of mak- 

 ing a much more definite distinction between the publications in- 

 tended for the busy farmer's use and those intended to give the 

 results of research. We are satisfied that much valuable practical 



