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permit, reporting results for such verification in the field as may 
seem to be required. 
NEEDS OF THE WORK. | a 
For the future we need especially an entomological laboratory, 
that we may conduct our experimental work on a larger scale and 
under conditions completely under our control. The necessity we 
are now under for traveling one hundred and fifty miles every time 
we wish to make an observation on the Hessian fly or the chinch bug, — 
because we cannot arrange breeding frames large enough to contain 
a sufficient number of these insects and their food; and our failure, 
after four years’ work, to make out some of the indispensable points 
in the life history and habits of the corn plant louse because we 
have no sufficient means of keeping this species under observation 
without exposing our specimens to conditions so unnatural that they 
soon perish, are illustrations of the disadvantages under which we 
work. ‘To supply this lack I shall have to ask from the Legislature 
an appropriation of $1000 for the erection and furnishing of a suita- 
ble building for the breeding of insects, the rearing of their food 
plants, and other experimental work of this description. Otherwise, 
the appropriations now required need not vary materially from those — 
made at the last session of the Legislature. | 
Respectfully submitted, 
S. A. FORBES, ee, 
Director of Laboratory. 
October 31, 1888. | ; 
