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Mr. Johnson said the early brood of the army worm had been very 

 destructive in Illinois in the vicinity of the experiment station. A 

 very important contagious disease affecting army-worm larva' had been 

 discovered by a former assistant of Mr. Forbes, Mr. B. M. Duggar, and 

 this disease had been worked up most carefully by Mr. Forbes. The 

 facts regarding it would probably soon be published, lie described 

 the appearance of the diseased worms. 



Mr. Johnson read the following paper: 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES FROM MARYLAND. 



By W. G. Johnson', College Station, \hl. 



The Maryland Agricultural College has this season established a 

 department of entomology and will offer regular courses of instruction, 

 beginning with the coming scholastic year. The new department is 

 united under one management with the State agricultural experiment 

 station. 



Another step of considerable importance was the passage of an act 

 by the last general assembly of Maryland known as the " trees and 

 nursery stock" law. It provides for the appointment of a State ento- 

 mologist, whose duty it shall be to inspect all nurseries in the State 

 each year with a view of detecting the presence of the San Jose scale, 

 yellows, rosette, or any other injurious insect or plant disease. The 

 owner is notified of the presence of any insect pest or disease that may 

 be found on his place, and the proper remedies for its destruction are 

 suggested. If he does not take such steps in the time specified for the 

 suppression of the pest, he lays himself liable to a fine of $1 for every 

 tree, plant, or vine so affected when shipped from his nursery. In such 

 a case the entomologist can enter the nursery, employ such assistance 

 as he needs, and apply the proper remedies for the destruction of the 

 pest at the expense of the owner. 



Every nurseryman or seller of trees within the State is required to 

 send on every package so shipped or delivered, as well as to transmit to 

 the purchaser by mail, a written or printed certificate signed by him 

 that the stock has been examined by the State or Government ento- 

 mologist and that it is free from insect pests and plant diseases. Fail- 

 ure to furnish such certificate renders him liable to a fine of $100 for 

 every such shipment or delivery without such certificate. 



If the stock is found free from insect pests and plant diseases, the 

 entomologist furnishes the owner with a certificate to that effect and 

 files a similar certificate with the governor of the State and with the 

 president of the Maryland Agricultural College, which certificate must 

 at all limes be subject to public inspection. 



The section of this law that provides for a certificate which is t<> be 

 affixed on each package of trees, plants, vines, or nursery stock shipped 



