TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 63 



conflicting reports in the magazines in the United States which 

 may easily leave the impression that the tick is a menace all through 

 Montana cannot neutralize the other false impression that the 

 disease has been exterminated. 



From the foregoing, two deductions are outstanding: adhering 

 strictly to the truth will be best in the long run, and it is more 

 than ever necessary that a thorough program of tick eradication be 

 iidopted in the Bitter Root Valley. 



EXHIBITS. 



During the last two years considerable attention has been given 

 to preparing educational exhibits consisting of mounted insects, 

 examples of their work, and charts showing the same insects greatly 

 enlarged. Such exhibits are of great value in themselves and are 

 of especial value in supplementing lectures and talks. Charts show- 

 mg insects large enough to be seen at some little distance and in 

 iiatuial colors are of great aid to a speaker in giving his audience 

 correct ideas of the pest he is discussing, and if at the end of his 

 talk an exhibit of the insect and its work is passed from hand to 

 hand, a much clearer impression is left than if words alone are used. 



This exhibit has been shown on the Northern Pacific better 

 farming train and at the state fair. Parts of it have been used 

 repeatedly by speakers at farmers' institutes and at fruit schools 

 and it is always a source of much interest to all who visit the state 

 entomologist's office at Bozeman. It is intended eventually to cir- 

 culate among chambers of commerce and high schools. 



Our aim is to gradually add life-history material and chaits until 

 pll our worst pests are included in the exhibit. 



FOUL BROOD LAW NEEDED. 



In the last annual report of the state entomologist, pages 90 

 1o 92, the need of a bee disease law was discussed. It was pointed 

 out that both the American foul brood and the wax moth have been 

 found in Montana and that much damage is being done. The sit- 

 uation has not improved during the year that has since passed and 

 it is now serious and critical. Unless provision is made to check 

 lhe progress of these diseases, we may expect that the bee industry, 

 which has been making rapid advances during the past few years, 

 will be seriously crippled if not wiped out. 



