TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 207 



lectures have been given at farmers' meetings and before high 

 schools. 



SUMMARY OF DUTIES 



The State entomologist, by virtue of his office, serves the State 

 in several capacities. He is charged with the administration of the 

 State's insecticide and fungicide law, which was enacted for the 

 purpose of preventing the manufacture, sale, and transportation of 

 adulterated insecticides and fungicides ; he cooperates with the State 

 liorticulturist in carrying into effect the State's pest quarantine law ; 

 he serves as a member and the secretary of the State Board of 

 Entomology, whose duty it is to investigate and control insects 

 which carry diseases of man and domestic animals. 



These are in addition to the activities of his central position as 

 State entomologist, which are reported in this bulletin. 



NEEDS AND PLANS 



In the foregoing pages attention has been called to the need 

 for a foul-brood law in order that protection may be given to the 

 bee industry in Montana. If the legislature passes such a law it 

 is intended that the actual w^ork of inspection and instruction shall 

 be done by one of the men in this office or by an assistant secured 

 for a few months for this particular purpose. In this way the work 

 can be done for a few hundred dollars. 



No other expansion of the w^ork of this office is contemplated 

 during the next biennium. 



The work of pest control has already grown to such ])roportions 

 that it is impossible for me to longer handle it without the assistance 

 of a man to act as deputy. It is therefore requested tliat a small 

 increase be given to make this possible. It is planned that this 

 assistant shall spend his time during the growing season out among 

 tlie farmers, both getting and giving information. It is further 

 intended that during the fall and winter months he shall work in 

 cooperation with the farmers' institute office, lecturing and pre- 

 paring newspaper articles and circulars. 



