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those for whose benefit fehey were made. If ever] application 

 can noi he met, it is probably owing to the fad that the demand 

 hitherto, has aol been sufficiently large to warrant larger edil 

 There is assuredly one publication which should be procurable 

 by every farmer who will ask for it. viz.: The valuable ill us 

 train] report of the Entomologist of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Professor C. V. Riley. Of this report, 

 contained in the annual report of the Commissioner of Agricul- 

 ture, 425,000 copies are ordered by Congress, each year, but it 

 is feared a large proportion of these never leave Washington, 

 Gxcepl as entering into the composition of other paper. The 

 Department has also issued two reports of the United States 

 Entomological Commission, seven bulletins of the same Com- 

 mission, and eighteen bulletins of the Entomological Division. 

 It is also issuing, at the present time through the Division 

 of Entomology, an interesting and instructive periodical, 

 under the name of " Insect Life." Some of the above ma}' be 

 still procurable through application to the Commissioner, or to 

 Professor Riley, or to your Representatives in Congress. 



The reports of Dr. Fitch, published in the Transactions of the 

 New Yoik State Agricultural Society, for the years 1854 to 1870. 

 arc of special value. Six of these reports, bound in two volumes, 

 may still be obtained of the Secretary of the Agricultural Society, 

 at Albany. 



The reports of the State Entomologists of Missouri and of 

 Illinois are also very desirable. For these, application with inquiry 

 might I"- made to Professor Riley, at Washington, and to Professor 

 S. A. Forbes, at Champaign, Illinois. 



A volume that would seem to be indispensable to the fruit- 

 grower, is •" Insects Injurious to Fruits." by W. Saunders, pub- 

 lished in 1883,* by the J. B. Lippincobt Company, Philadelphia, 

 Pa.. 436 pages, 410 figures. A recent publication of particular 

 value to the student as an aid to classification, and prepared 

 Specially for the agricultural student, is "An Introduction to 

 Entomology." by J. H. Comstock, Professor of Entomology in Coi 



* A second edition has since been published. 



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