INSECT p:st susvby bulletin 
Vol. 7 Iferch 1, 1927 No.l 
INTROpUCTSKT 
TTith the last number of Volume 6 of the Insect Pest Survey Bulletin, 
we instituted a slight change in this publication by issuing a lCth number 
in which the year's entomological features were summarized. This was the result 
of many requests for an annual summary similar to the one prepared in 1922 and 
published in the form of a Departmental Bulletin (U. S. D« A. No* 1103). 
It ■'"as felt impractical to issue a printed annual summary, as the necessary 
time involved in preparing, editing, and printing such a publication made it 
available at so late a date that much of its value was lost. 
This year the Survey will issue to its collaborators a questionnaire 
form covering several of the most ^idely distributed and important insect pests, 
with the hope that this may result in the Survey receiving from those carrying 
on investigations on one or more of these pests, data of a much higher statistical 
value, and of a more comparable nature than could be obtained by cursory re- 
ports. The Survey does not wish its collaborators, however, to feel th a t the 
incidental notes on all insect conditions made in the course of their regular 
activities are not highly appreciated by the Survey and urges its reporters 
to continue their general reporting to as great an extent as their time will 
permit. 
The season in general is hot far enough advanced to have developed any 
outstanding features at the time this first' number of volume 7 is issued. 
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