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checking up certain phases of the printing expense for the fiscal year 1916, 
owing fact was developed: 
16 office published 5 bulletins at a cost of $1,000; another office published 
ans of the same type at a cost of $700; to wit- 
Cost: _ Total pages: Total plates: Total figures: 
$1 ,000 57 1 37 
700 45 @) 24 
mce $ 300 “12 cesta aeRg ar 
The $300 difference is appearently produced in part by the larger numbers of 
Beiions, since it is evident that the difference of 12 printed pages did not 
t: ibute largely to the excess in cost. 
In many cases photographic prints are furnished, often in duplicate, which are 
for publication, hence the waste of material. he other cases, as many as 
prints are submitted to illustrate a single nonimportant phase or minor detail, 
i could have been covered by one photograph or even eliminated. 
Do not furnish plates for your paper if text figures will suffice. 
Pes) Another expensive item in printing is caused by the author’s re-writing 
diletin in the galley proof! This is indefensible. A duplicate galley and 
proof is sent the author, solely for the purpose of correcting actual errors, 
20+ for the claboration of afterthoughts, unless investigations subsequent to 
presentation of the manuscript have developed radical changes. 
sae ) Many forms for recording notes can as well be flexotyped as printed. ‘The 
"al following of this practise would release funds sufficient for printing 
rl bulletius a year. 
(A) The cost of printing pin labels is considerable. Orders involving $100 
96en frequent. Three such orders ce pay for a small Farmer’s Bulletin in 
ition of 25,000 copies. In many cases photographic labels will serve all 
ses, and they can be prepared in a small fraction of the time required for 
ing. Woreover for about $20 a set of type and accessories can be procured. 
) Section of the Bureau has such an outfit which has given satisfaction. 
Ae ‘These aré but a few ideas which suggest themselves, in support of the suggestion 
while the printing allotment may prove to be ample for all purposes, it will — 
Prove so, by the most careful handling, and the investigator or the man who 
tes the bulletins will have a large part of the attendent responsibility, B.A.R. 
CAGES USED AT NEW ORLEANS LABORATORY. 
‘In response to Doctor Howard's suggestion in the June number of the Monthly 
Sar of the Bureau of Entomology, the following descriptions of cages used for 
me Diatraea saccharalis at the New Orleans laboratory are given. Youn 
“¢an be placed in jars with cane or corn leaves, but for larger larvae indi- 
glass tubes are used. Long glass tubes about # inch in diameter are bought 
pound from a wholesale druggist and are filed and broken into lengths of 
7 inches. A piece of corn or sugar cane almost filling the tube is inserted, 
darva put in, and each end of the tube is plugged with raw cotton. A number of 
tubes are placed in a cigar box. They approximate to some degree the condi- 
3 Of the burrows of the larvae in stalks of cane or corn, chee the similarity is 
iereased by the obscurity of the interior of the cigar box. The larvae can be ob- 
6d readily. I+ is very easy to clean the tubes, a cotton pe simply being 
bd through each tube with a rounded stick or plunger. . .. Adults are placed 


