FOURTH REPORT OF THE STATE EN 

 TOnOLOGIST OF nONTANA. 



In the three previous reports of the State Entomologist, a total 

 of about 200 pages, we have attempted to put in easily accessible form 

 the most necessary information regarding Montana's leading insect 

 pests and those liable to be introduced. The preparation of these re- 

 ports has required a large amount of investigation and routine work, 

 and has occupied a large part of the time of the entomologist of 

 the Experiment Station not absorbed by his teaching and other 

 duties. 



With the passage of the Adams Act by Congress, thereby more 

 liberally endowing the Experiment Station, a considerable change 

 was made in the requirements of experiment station workers. The 

 new fund is much more closely restricted in the manner that it may 

 be expended. Expenditures under the new act must be for the in- 

 vestigation of specific problems and only for real research work. 

 The authorities of the Montana Exeriment Station have assigned to 

 the entomologist a liberal share of the new fund, and definite investi- 

 gations have been taken up which will require several years for their 

 completion. The method of work will necessarily be more exhaus- 

 tive and technical, and we believe that the results will be correspond- 

 ingly more valuable. Our efforts will necesarily be confined to 

 a more restricted field and it will be' necessary, until more liberal 

 funds are allowed the department, to omit the making of such general 

 investigations and notes as have been published in the first three 

 Annual Reports. As occasion demands we shall in the future, from 

 time to tin:e, publish bulletins on the more important insect pests 



