Excerpt from Entomologica Americana, 1890, Vol. 6

A small number of the States of the Union had employed their State entomologists for some years past, and Canada her's since 1884. All of these officers had striven hard to do good and useful work in the vast field which lay before them. Recently, however, a great impulse has been given to practical science in all lines byythe very important Hatch Experiment Station Act, which was passed by Congress in 1888. This Act provides that a sum of Should be annually set aside for the purpose of carrying on scientific agricultural experiments in every State of the Union. In conse quence of this Act there have already been organized Experimental Stations, twenty-seven of which have entomologists on their staffs, and these officers have already issued much valuable practical in formation in the shape of bulletins to the farmers of their respective States. The operation of injurious insects are such an important factor in the success or failure of all crops grown, and the recogni tion of that fact is now becoming so wide-spread amongst the edu cated agricultural classes, that before long it is beyond question that the directors of the other Stations will see the advisability of adding an entomologist to their staff. The result of this will be that we Shall have in North America a large number of men specially trained for the work they have undertaken, with sufficient time and means at their disposal for carrying out any experiments which may be necessary. Surely, under such circumstances important results must follow. They-all have the same object in view - the discovery, as soon as possible, of practical - that is, efficient, simple and cheap -remedies for the various injurious insects which destroy produce. The work of all these students will, of course, have to be carried on independently, in widely separated localities, and a fact which will give special value to their labors will be, that similar experiments will be carried out carefully and scientifically under differing circum stances and with varying climatic conditions.

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