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shipment of nursery stock may be affected by the character of the 

 infestation. 



The entomological work has been materially aided as in past years, 

 by the identification of a number of species, through the couitesy of 

 Dr L. O. Howard, chief of the bureau of entomology, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, and his associates. There has been 

 very effective cooperation with the State Department of Farms and 

 Markets and its agents, the county farm bureaus, the state experiment 

 stations and other public welfare organizations. A number of corre- 

 spondents have donated valuable specimens and many have aided 

 materially by transmitting local data respecting various insects or 

 assisted in other ways. 



