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over one hundred square miles, the state of Massachusetts made annual 

 appropriations amounting in all to more than one million dollars, and the 

 operations, carried on by a committee of the State Board of Agriculture, 

 rank among the most extensive of their kind. At present the Bureau 

 of Entomology is making successful efforts toward the eradication of 

 this pest. 



New York. Dr. Asa Fitch, appointed in 1854 by the New York State 

 Agricultural Society, under the authorization of the legislature, was the 

 first entomologist to be officially commissioned by any state. His 

 fourteen reports (1855 to 1872) embody the results of a large amount of 

 painstaking investigation. 



In 1881 Dr. James A. Lintner became state entomologist of New 

 York. Highly competent for his chosen work, Lintner made every 

 effort to further the cause of economic entomology, and his thirteen 

 reports, accurate, thorough and extremely serviceable, rank among the 

 best. Lintner has had a most able successor in Dr. E. P. Felt, who is 

 continuing the work with exceptional vigor and the most careful regard 

 for the entomological welfare of the state. Felt has published at this 

 writing thirty bulletins (including fourteen annual reports), besides im- 

 portant papers on forest and shade-tree insects, and has directed the 

 preparation by Needham and his associates of three notable volumes on 

 aquatic insects. 



The Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, established 

 in 1879, has issued many valuable publications upon injurious insects, 

 written by the master-hand of Professor Comstock or else under his 

 influence. The studies of Comstock and Slingerland were always made 

 in the most conscientious spirit and their bulletins original, thorough 

 and practical are models of what such works should be. 



Illinois. Mr. Benjamin D. Walsh, engaged in 1867 by the Illinois 

 State Horticultural Society, published in 1868, as acting state entomolo- 

 gist, a report in the interests of horticulture an accurate, sagacious 

 and altogether excellent piece of original work. Like many other eco- 

 nomic entomologists he was a prolific writer for the agricultural press and 

 his contributions, numbering about four hundred, were in the highest 

 degree scientific and practical. 



Walsh was succeeded by Dr. William LeBaron, who published (1871 

 to 1874) four able reports of great practical value. In the words of Dr. 

 Howard, "He records in his first report the first successful experiment 

 in the transportation of parasites of an injurious species from one locality 

 to another, and in his second report recommended the use of Paris green 



