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many kinds of varieties thai have been developed. Mr. Munson described his own 

 methods of work in the field, illustrating the subject by a detailed account of the 

 production of the variety Brilliant in which the Delaware and Lindley varieties were 

 used a- parents, the work being done along well-known lines. 



Association of Economic Entomologists. — The society had ;i three days' meeting at 

 New Orleans, beginning January 1. which was well attended. The programme was 

 a long and varied one. 



President H. Garman of the society was unable to attend the meeting, but Benta 

 carefully prepared paper on The Scope and Position of Eo »nomic Entomology Among 

 Branches of Biology, lit- maintained that as a culture study and for memory 



training entomology surpasses the dead languages, and should have a i [ual place 



in schools and colleges with botany. The relation of insects to human and animal 

 diseases, he argued, sIimuM be worked out by the entomologists, and not left to 

 physicians and veterinarian.-. The desirability of using honey bees in class room 

 work in all agricultural colleges was urged, and it was suggested that the entomolo- 

 gists should take the lead in teaching the Bilkworm industry in this country, state 

 inspection work should be placed in the hand- oi trained entomologists and the 



nursery inspection laws of the State- made more uniform. Special attention was 

 called to the desirability of giving more study to the relation of insects to the distri- 

 bution of plant disease, and to the production of flower-, fruits, etc. A point brought 

 out in the discussion of this paper by S. A. Forbes was that apples sprayed with 

 arsenic kept much better in cold storage than unsprayed apple.-. 



In a paper on The ( lorn Root Aphis and It- Attendant Ant, Prof. s. A. Forbes gave 

 an elaborate account of the life history of the aphis. Bhowing its dependence upon 

 ant- for spread and injuriousness, and brought out the fact that in treating it rotation 

 and extra cultivation should he the prime factors. 



Prof. I'.. P.Sanderson read a paper on National Control of Introduced Insect 

 Pests, in which he suggested that the association take action looking toward the 

 national control of introduced insect pests. 



( )ne of the most important sessions was devoted to a symposium on the boll weevil 

 in which W. P. Hunter discussed The Present Status of the .Mexican Cotton Boll 

 Weevil; W. E. Hinds, Laboratory Methods in the P><»11 Weevil Investigation; and 

 W. Newell. The Work of the State Crop Pest Commission of Louisiana on the Cotton 

 Boll Weevil. A. F. Conradi had a paper on The Cultural System in the Light of 

 Recent Observations Regarding the Boll Weevil. In general, it was believed that 

 while the progress of the insect could be temporarily checked it could not by any 

 means now at hand he stayed, and that the weevil would eventually infest the entire 

 cotton-producing region of the United states. 



It was brought out that the cotton leaf worm, which was at one time classed as a 

 dangerous enemy to cotton, might be useful as an ally against the boll weevil, since 

 if allowed to develop at the end of the Beason it would strip the plant of all green 

 material, necessitating the early hibernation of the weevils. If the stalks of the 

 plants are then gathered and burned large numbers of weevils will be destroyed. 

 Chief reliance, however, must be placed in the use of early-maturing varieties, thor- 

 ough cultivation, and such cultural methods as will hasten the crop to maturity a- 

 early in the season as possible. 



In the report of W. E. Hinds on Some Breeding Experiments with Boll Weevils 

 in Cages Kept at Different Temperatures, it was shown that it is possible t«» predict 

 the number of broods that maybe expected in a given locality provided weather 

 record- are obtainable. It was thought further that this method of breeding at dif- 

 ferent temperatures might be applied toother insects in predicting their develop- 

 ment in new localities where weather records were known. 



W. E. Britton discussed Method- of Destroying the Woolly Maple Leaf Scale by 

 Spraying. This: scale, Phenacoccus acericola, is now a serious pest of the sugar maple 



