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sta ated in the first, or April number'of the News- 
its object is to pring the continually increasing 
rot people engaged in careal and forage insect inves- 
as into closér touch with one another and to keep the 
Bl informed, in @ general way, of what is being done 
eee force. Thus the reason for the existence 
Sitters - letter i8 to combine and solidify the division, 
$ is upon this that the successful carrying out of so 
diverse investigations must largely rest. 
ma thie beginning applied entomology consisted merely in 
meatment of garden plants with soot, ashes, lime, or per- 
Maite hellebore, affording relief only to the ‘gardener. 
sp: ‘ead of the Colorado potato beetle eastward from the 
probably did much to bring to the’front the applica- 
Mmraris green as an insecticidé, but still its use was 
finned largely to the truck farmer and gardener. To the 
Se grains and forage cr rops all of'!this afforded no re- 
poever.. Still later, the work on the cotton worm of 
ieeth prought into prac tical use the preparation and appli- 
on cf kerosene emulsion. Still the grower of grains and 
Mees found no relief. A. little later began the spraying 
Bees and shrubs, which, while it opened up an almost new 
ier the fruit grower, still left the ordinary farmer with 
fonLems of insect control practically unsolved. 
Biore the advent of experiment stations and even for 
Same afterward, letters addressed to thé members of univer- 
Bfaculties complaining of the ravages of insects and ask- 
Belief brought the actual farmer little consolation. The 
28 he received to his appeals for relief were usually 
xe ct an terms to which he w as unused and much of the text 
ing Fepives “in a language sid, he did not understand. 
eer» the replies were usually penned by men who had little 
practice! kmowledge of NET and thus there grew 
hon the two not only a continually widening. breach but 
. Cases an absolutely intolerant feeling on the part of 
i for the other. 
‘Perhaps nothing better illustrates the changed condition 
rapid growth of agriculture as a science than the immense 
aes made by economic entomology as applied over and through- 
th3 broad acres of the ordinary farmer. At the present time, | 
da of receiving a stereotyped reply to his applications for 
's When he applies as an-individual, or for his neighborhood, 
> Department of Agriculture, . either directly, qr, as is be- 
wery day more and more frequent, through his Representative 
ress, he is very often surprised when, within two or three daya 
receipt of his complaint, there appears in his neighbor- ‘ 
