Miscellaneous Essays On Economic Entomology

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ISBN 13 : 9781332304271
Total Pages : 136 pages
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Download or read book Miscellaneous Essays on Economic Entomology written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Miscellaneous Essays on Economic Entomology: By the State Entomologist and His Entomological Assistants A recent opinion of the Attorney General makes it doubtful whether the State Entomologist of Illinois has a right, under the laws referring to that office (to some extent inconsistent and conflicting), to prepare any other than a biennial report; and a change in practice of the State Board of Contracts leaves no doubt whatever that a report published this year could not be illustrated. As an elaborate monograph of insects injurious to Indian corn was intended as the principal part of my entomological report for 1885, and as this article certainly should not be published without a large number of excellent figures, I have decided, under existing circumstances, not only to withhold this paper, but also to refrain from presenting any formal report for 1885, leaving it to the State Legislature to provide for the proper illustration of the reports hereafter, and to remove the present inconsistencies of the law. Unwilling, however, that the work of the office for the past year should be without representation in the Transactions of the State Board of Agriculture, with which the entomological report has been annually published for the last ten years, I have submitted to the Board, at the request of its Secretary, C. F. Mills, Esq., the following miscellaneous essays on economic entomology, summarizing the results of such part of our operations as may well be published without cuts. A running account of the principal entomological events and observations of the year is followed by a somewhat elaborate report of experiments with insecticides for the codling moth and curculios in apple orchards; other articles are offered presenting the results of recent observations and experiments upon the corn plant louse, upon some of the most destructive of our common grasshoppers, and upon a miscellaneous series of insects of Livingston county; and a list of corn insects with a bibliography of the economic literature relating to them is also published as an introduction to a monograph on insects affecting corn, to be presented hereafter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.