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well as the habits of birds, which also hold them in check; and lastly, the 
State should liberally EN print and —(— the entomologist's 
eport. By so doing, not on ould the interests of agriculture be pro- 
inatéd and thousands of oi patents ea to the State (though each 
legislator who unwil- Fig. 126. 
lingly votes a oe E 
dollars or more sin- 
cerely believe ge he is 
robbing the ury, 
while actually refilling it 
to t at amount), 
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State of Massachusetts, 
are known all over 
Europe; in other words, 
throughout nearly the whole civilized world, and so are those of Dr. 
Fitch, the State Entomologist of New York. while the writings of Mr. 
Walsh, late State Entomologist of Illinois, containing so much that is 
novel and interesting to theoretical as well as practical entomology, are 
Pickle Worm. 
read and sought after by European authors. 
true knowledge of practical entomology may well be said to be 
in its infancy, when, as is well known to agriculturists, the cultivation 
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