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world requires an intimate and wide knowledge of the literature and 

 insects in both this and other countries and illustrates in a concrete 

 manner the need in entomological work of both training and 

 experience. 



General. The work of the office has been materially aided as in 

 past years by the identification of a number of insects through the 

 courtesy of Dr L. O. Howard, chief of the Bureau of Entomology, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, and his associates. There 

 has been very effective and close cooperation with the State Depart- 

 ment of Farms and Markets, particularly the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, the State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, 

 the State Experiment Station at Geneva, the State Conservation 

 Commission, the State Department of Health, the county farm 

 bureaus and various public welfare organizations. A number of 

 correspondents have donated material and rendered valuable service 

 by transmitting local data respecting various insects and assisting 

 in other ways. It is a pleasure to state that there has been, as in 

 the past, most helpful cooperation on the part of all interested in 

 the work of the office. 



Respectfully submitted 



Ephraim Porter Felt 



State Entomologist 

 October 31, 1921 



