WEST VIRGINIA EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Clerid as possible within the next three days, and forward 

 them to me at Strassburg, I left Dresden on the night train for 

 Strassburg, going via Munich, Constance, and the Schwarts 

 Wald railroad, through the Bavarian and Black Forests. Some 

 striking features of the forest area of Bavaria, as viewed from 

 the train the next day were the prevalence of spruce, evidently 

 the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa), and the evidence of a most 

 thoroughly executed forestry policy. A feature of special in- 

 terest was the encouragement of insectiverous birds by pro- 

 viding for them small and neat nesting boxes in the trees. 

 These were observed by the thousands as we passed through 

 the forest. The methods adopted for the control of the noune 

 rnoth, which is the great enemy of the Bavarian conifers, was 

 another interesting feature. Apparently every tree, large and 

 small, over extensive areas in some sections, has a belt of the 

 outer bark removed from the trunk a few feet above the base, 

 and the smooth surface covered with a black, sticky substance 

 to prevent the caterpillars from ascending the trees. 



The condition in the great Black Forest in the mountains of 

 Baden-Baden were also of especial interest, as viewed from the 

 car window, both in its wide expanse, and the evident care be- 

 stowed upon it, both to preserve the timber and the land on 

 the precipitous slopes. 



Upon my arrival in Strassburg on Sept. 7th, 1 received my 

 first letters from home, informing me that great alarm was felt 

 for my safety because of the exaggerated accounts in the 

 American papers of the cholera epidemic in Germany, the 

 existence of which had not given me much concern on my own 

 account, but the possibility of my collection of Olerids being 

 destroyed at the quarantine stations by the severe fumigation 

 that all packages from Germany were subjected to, caused me 

 considerable worry. 



INVESTIGATIONS CONTINUED NEAR HAGENAU. 



After a day's rest in Strassburg, I proceeded to Hagenau on 

 the morning of the 8th, arriving there at 8 a. m. After calling 

 on Oberforester Strahmeyer, I engaged a cab, and accompanied 



