﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  STATE 
  ENTOMOLOGIST 
  I908 
  II 
  

  

  through 
  the 
  mails 
  or 
  by 
  express. 
  This 
  latter 
  has 
  undoubtedly 
  had 
  

   some 
  effect 
  upon 
  the 
  correspondence. 
  1470 
  letters, 
  171 
  postals, 
  42 
  

   circulars, 
  408 
  packages 
  were 
  sent 
  through 
  the 
  mails 
  and 
  39 
  pack- 
  

   ages 
  were 
  shipped 
  by 
  express. 
  

  

  Nursery 
  certificates. 
  We 
  have 
  continued, 
  as 
  in 
  past 
  years, 
  to 
  

   indorse 
  upon 
  the 
  request 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Commissioner 
  of 
  Agriculture 
  

   nursery 
  certificates 
  issued 
  by 
  his 
  ofiice 
  and 
  destined 
  for 
  points 
  in 
  

   the 
  state 
  of 
  Virginia, 
  since 
  the 
  Virginia 
  authorities 
  insist 
  that 
  all 
  

   certificates 
  accompanying 
  shipments 
  of 
  nursery 
  stock 
  to 
  that 
  state 
  

   shall 
  be 
  indorsed 
  by 
  an 
  official 
  entomologist. 
  The 
  following 
  is 
  a 
  

   list 
  of 
  firms 
  to 
  whom 
  these 
  nursery 
  certificates 
  were 
  issued 
  dur- 
  

   i]ig 
  1908: 
  

  

  Stark 
  Bros. 
  Nursery 
  Co., 
  George 
  A. 
  Sweet, 
  Bryant 
  Bros., 
  all 
  of 
  

   Dansville; 
  George 
  S. 
  Josselyn, 
  T, 
  S. 
  Hubbard 
  Co., 
  F. 
  E. 
  Schiff- 
  

   erli, 
  Lewis 
  Roesch, 
  Foster 
  & 
  Griffith, 
  all 
  of 
  Fredonia; 
  The 
  Chase 
  

   Nurseries, 
  Henry 
  Sears 
  & 
  Co., 
  The 
  M. 
  H. 
  Harmon 
  Co., 
  H. 
  E. 
  

   Merrell, 
  all 
  of 
  Geneva; 
  E. 
  Moody 
  & 
  Sons, 
  Lockport; 
  Jackson 
  Per- 
  

   kins, 
  Newark; 
  Allen 
  Nursery 
  Co., 
  Brown 
  Bros. 
  Co., 
  Herrick 
  Seed 
  

   Co., 
  Perry 
  Nursery 
  Co., 
  First 
  National 
  Nurseries, 
  Chase 
  Bros. 
  Co., 
  

   Ellwanger 
  & 
  Barry, 
  Western 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Nursery 
  Co., 
  Rochester 
  Nurs- 
  

   ery 
  Co., 
  H. 
  S. 
  Taylor 
  Nursery 
  Co., 
  Glen 
  Bros., 
  all 
  of 
  Rochester; 
  

   F. 
  R. 
  Pierson 
  Co., 
  Tarrytown. 
  

  

  General. 
  We 
  would 
  acknowledge 
  at 
  this 
  time 
  our 
  indebtedness 
  

   to 
  Dr 
  L. 
  O. 
  Howard, 
  Chief 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Entomology, 
  United 
  

   States 
  Department 
  of 
  Agriculture, 
  and 
  his 
  associates 
  for 
  identify- 
  

   ing 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  insects. 
  Several 
  correspondents 
  have 
  rendered 
  

   valuable 
  services 
  in 
  securing 
  desirable 
  material 
  for 
  the 
  collection. 
  

   There 
  has 
  been, 
  as 
  in 
  previous 
  years, 
  a 
  most 
  helpful 
  cooperation 
  on 
  

   the 
  part 
  of 
  all 
  interested 
  in 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  this 
  office. 
  

  

  The 
  tacit 
  limitations 
  of 
  earlier 
  years 
  confined 
  the 
  studies 
  of 
  the 
  

   economic 
  entomologist 
  to 
  insect 
  enemies 
  of 
  well 
  recognized 
  farm 
  

   crops, 
  such 
  as 
  corn, 
  potatoes, 
  fruit, 
  or 
  to 
  those 
  forms 
  annoying 
  or 
  

   injurious 
  to 
  domestic 
  animals. 
  The 
  later 
  extensive 
  insect 
  depre- 
  

   dations 
  upon 
  shade 
  and 
  forest 
  trees 
  have 
  served 
  to 
  emphasize 
  the 
  

   practical 
  importance 
  of 
  this 
  field. 
  The 
  more 
  recent 
  discoveries 
  

   that 
  malaria 
  and 
  yellow 
  fever 
  are 
  transmitted 
  by 
  mosquitos, 
  and 
  

   that 
  typhoid 
  fever 
  and 
  other 
  grave 
  intestinal 
  diseases 
  may 
  be 
  con- 
  

   veyed 
  by 
  house 
  flies, 
  has 
  made 
  the 
  entomologist 
  a 
  most 
  welcome 
  

   ally 
  of 
  the 
  sanitarian. 
  Furthermore, 
  careful 
  investigations 
  of 
  in- 
  

   jurious 
  and 
  dangerous 
  insects 
  have 
  repeatedly 
  demonstrated 
  the 
  

   value 
  of 
  such 
  studies 
  as 
  a 
  necessary 
  preliminary 
  to 
  practical 
  con- 
  

  

  