CONVENTION OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. 557 



this Department, and W. (r. Johnson, of MaryLind, wlio reported the 

 following resolutions: 



Whereas in cousidoration of the recent alarmiujf spread of the 8au Jos«' scale in 

 the Atlantic and Middle States, and the further fact that we believe its suppression 

 can only be accomplished by carefully framed laws, which should be enacted in the 

 several States: Therefore be it 



Jiesolved, First. That the section of entomology of the American Association of 

 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations indorses the principle of special leg- 

 islation for the suppression of this pest. 



Second. That a committee of ten be created, with Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the 

 Division of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, as chairman, which shall 

 carefully prepare such memoranda as they deem best in relation to legislation deal- 

 ing with the pest, and when so prepared this matter shall be submitted to the 

 authorities of the several States concerned for such action as the legislatures thereof 

 may choose to make. 



Third. That it is the sense of this section that State inspection for the control and 

 prevention of the dissemination of this i)est upon nursery stock is imperative. 



In a paper entitled "Notes from Auburn, Alabama," C. F. Baker 

 gave a record of observations on various insects injurious to crops in 

 that region during the past season. 



F. A. Sirrine, of New York, read a paper on "Termites {Termites 

 flavipen) as a forcing house pest," in which he noted the damage done 

 by these insects to chrysanthemums in a forcing house at Floral Park, 

 New York, during August, 1896, and by Epitrix cneumeris to j^otatoes, 

 and described experiments on the effect of burying the cocoons upon 

 the vitality of Melittia ceto. 



In a paper entitled "Experiences with white muscardine and the 

 chinch bug," W. G. Johnson, of Maryland, gave a review of observations 

 and experiments on this subject, summarizing with the statement that 

 he recognized the fungus as a facultative parasite and a slight natural 

 reducing agent of insects, but beyond this experience did not lead him 

 to claim for it any economic value whatever. The experience of W. B. 

 Alwood and O. Lugger tended to confirm tbe conclusions of this 

 paper. 



W. B. Alwood, of Virginia, in a paper on the "Dissemination of the 

 San Jose scale in Virginia," reviewed the history of the dissemination 

 of this insect in that State and reported progress made under State 

 law in its repression. 



W. G. Johnson, of Maryland, reviewed the present status of the San 

 Jose scale in Maryland and gave a brief account of attempts to rej^ress 

 it. He expressed the opinion that the pest could never be completely 

 suppressed on account of its wide distribution and firm foothold in that 

 State, but could be kept in check by persistent and energetic fighting 

 by a thorough and harmonius State organization on the part of the 

 nurserymen and fruit growers. 



A paper on "Economic entomology in North Carolina," by G. 

 McCarthy, noted the prevalence and destructiveness of various inju- 

 rious insects occurring in that region during the past year. 



