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has been enlarged and improved, and there has been much general 

 development and awakenmg. With this development has come 

 a greatly increased demand for information from this office. The 

 correspondence has become heavy and the problems arising from 

 the advent of new or little known insects are multiplying. The 

 demand has passed the limit of what tlie office can do without an 

 assistant or a deputy State entomologist. 



CORRESPONDENCE 



Requests for information by letter are encouraged and have 

 l-'Cen rapidly increasing in recent years. These cover a wide range 

 of entomological topics, including the control of pests of the farm, 

 garden and orchard, parasites of domestic animals, greenhouse 

 pests, pests of the household, blood-sucking insects attacking man, 

 the spotted fever tick, insecticides, and spraying machinery. Cor- 

 respondence regarding bee-keeping and the diseases of bees is also 

 cared for in this office, as well as that regarding the control of 

 ground squirrels and the rodent pests. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Under the provisions of the State entomologist law the annual 

 reports of this office are published in the regular series of the 

 Montana Experiment Station bulletins. It has been thought best 

 that these reports should be kept executive and administrative, and 

 that the inform.ation regarding insect pests and the means to be 

 employed for their eradication or control should be published in 

 timely bulletins and circulars of information from the Experiment 

 Station. This policy was definitely established some ten years ago 

 and has been adhered to. A number of valuable publications have 

 been issued thus by the State entomologist or an assistant during 

 the past biennial period. The following is a list of these publica- 

 tions: 



Cabbage Worms and Cabbage Aphis. 



Alfalfa Weevil. 



Fungicides and Insecticides. 



The Sugar-beet Webworm. 



Eleventh Annual Report of State Entomologist. 



In addition to these, newspaper articles ha^•e been written and 



