CO-OPERATION WITH THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 



In view of the fact that the retardation of the boll weevil's 

 progress eastward is of vital importance to the entire cotton- 

 growing area of the country, the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology, early in 1904 very gener- 

 ously offered to co-operate with the State Crop Pest Commis- 

 sion in the boll weevil investigation, demonstration work, etc. 

 This co-operation has continued through both 1904 and 1905, the 

 utmost harmony prevailing between the employees of the Bureau 

 and of the Commission. The Secretary of the Commission has 

 been freely granted the advice and counsel of both Dr. L. O. 

 Howard and Prof. W. D. Hunter, and, in addition, the Bureau 

 has contributed very materially to the expense of the work in 

 Louisiana by paying the salaries and traveling expenses of a 

 part of the Commission's working force. In its co-operativ, 

 work with the Commission during 1904, the Bureau expended 

 $7,884.03, and during 1905, $3,959.90. This has meant, of course, 

 a corresponding saving of the funds appropriated by tht. last 

 Legislature for the work of the Commission. No plans ha\v as 

 yet been made for co-operative work with the Bureau of En- 

 tomology during the coming fiscal year, such co-^peratior. being 

 dependent upon congressional appropriations and upon the 

 pleasure of the Honorable Secretary of Aoriciiltuiv. Without 

 the co-operation of the Bureau this year, the expenses of the 

 Commission will be correspondingly increased 



BOLL WEEVIL QUARANTINE. 



As referred to above, and as pointed out in Circular No. 5 

 of the Commission, the extermination of isolated sporadic out- 

 breaks of the boll weevil, when these outbreaks occur (as did the 

 Audubon Park outbreak of 1903) outside the area of yearly 

 migrations, is both possible and practical, and -during 1905 

 the Commission has held itself in readiness to promptly sup- 

 press and exterminate any outbreak which might occur in East- 

 ern oi- Xorthern Louisiana. 



The Commission has received the hearty co-operation of the 

 farmers in the non-infested territory, and numerous reports of 



