February, '09] journal of ECONOMIC entomology 17 



At the afternoon session Tuesday the following report was pre- 

 sented by the Committee on Insecticides, by Mr. E. D. Sanderson : 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON INSECTICIDES 



Tour committee has had requests from several manufacturers for testing 

 Tiew insecticides, mostly scale remedies, most of which seem to have had no 

 practical tests in the orchard. After consideration of the merits of those sub- 

 mitted, your committee deemed it best to adopt the policy of advising manu- 

 facturers that after they had made practical tests of their remedies in the field 

 and furnished the committee with statements of the results, we would then 

 investigate the results secured, and if the insecticides then seemed to have 

 sufficient promise that we would then try and arrange cooperative tests. 

 Manufacturers have been so advised and as yet no new insecticides have arisen 

 which seem to your committee to need cooperative testing. 



Your committee wishes to reaffirm the report of previous committees that 

 a general testing of proprietary insecticides by individual entomologists is an 

 unnecessary duplication of effort and that requests from manufacturers for 

 such tests be referred to the committee for action. We would also urge that 

 any new insecticides whose promise seems to warrant further testing be sug- 

 gested to the committee by members of the Association so that cooperative 

 testing may be arranged. 



Tour committee found that an amendment to the Pure Food and Drug Law 

 to cover insecticides and fungicides was impractical and was instrumental in 

 having introduced Senate Bill 6515 and H. R. Bill 21318, providing for the in- 

 spection of insecticides and fungicides by the federal government. A confer- 

 ence with the manufacturers was held in New Tork on June 16 and various 

 amendments were proposed and the measure as amended was endorsed. An 

 executive committee composed of two manufacturers, two entomologists, and 

 one agricultural chemist was appointed, who have collected funds to provide 

 for pushing the measure and are doing everything possible to organize the 

 support of this measure before Congress. Your committee finds that this 

 measure has the hearty support of manufacturers and consumers and urges 

 its support upon the members of this Association. 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. D. Sanderson, 

 E. P. Felt, 

 IT. E. Summers. 

 It. I. Smith, 



Committee. 



In discussing this report Mr. Slingerland asked if it was advis- 

 able to turn new insecticides back to the manufacturers to be tested by 

 them. 



In reply Mr. Sanderson stated that some new insecticides had been 

 referred to the committee with a request that they be tested. It 

 seemed a waste of time to test these materials unless it was known 

 whether they were of some value. The better plan seemed to be to 

 have the manufacturer place such insecticides in the hands of some 



