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feeerm, and, besides this, has had a thorough university 
memes Sd, perhaps, is further equipped by having been en- 
men the investigation of insects over a wide range of 
try , including perhaps nO small number of the United States. 
bad Of receiving a letter which to him might, perhaps, 
ar as alee aid is. concerned, have been written in & 
ign languag he finds that his visitor can go about over his 
sau neighbors’ farms with him and with a clear understanding 
Merops cultivated can point out the work of insects and tell 
min what manner they might have avoided their injuries and 
meneir money. He will tell him of things that, though he 
Memeve spent a life time in farming, neither the farmer nor 
a. have ever yet been ee to observe. His caller not 
y fits amnto their farm Jife and speaks to him in the language of 
@armer, but is able to explain, in a perfectly natural 
v4 m@telligible way, aaa of what to him hus heretofore been 
mys may. Ine young man points out to him wherein.their farm 
thods have, in many eae 8 been sethantes responsible for 
Be previously Sustained losses by insect attack. It does 
ie Meatly matter of what State he may be a resident, if his local- 
MeeermnoL too inaccessible and the matter is of more ‘then local 
De ots: any of the men located at the fifteen different 
‘ iBtations can be wired ins tructions that will send them to 
Telict. ™yn this way ent /omo 1 ogy as applied to the broad acres 
farm has within the ek bier Ot ik years become com- 
at revolutionized, This means much to the growers of grains 
a forage erops and to the ees breeder. Moreover, it means 
mer equally as much to the banker, the manufacturer, and the 
Mint. ail of whom are coming to recognize the fact. 
o Soly 1, 1904, the writer was the sole member of the sec- 
Mee cfessrs. Geo. I. Reeves and W. J. Phillips being appointed a 
Bemontns later, and the expenditures for the fiscal year 1904- 
i Were some $6,000. 
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FISCAL YHAR 1916-1914. 
PERSONNEL OF THH STAPF OF CEREAL AND 
FORAGE INSHCT INVESTIGATIONS. 
F. M. Webster (Ill.), in charge. 
> OFFICE, 
m. Walton (Pa.), Hattie M. Wilson (Minn.), 
* Marshall (Va.), Thos. F. Mahan (Mass.). 
| TECHNO-BIOLOGICAL. | | 
Gahan (Md.), J. T. Monell (Mo.), 
/Alrion (S. Dak.). 
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