JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



OCTOBER, 1909 



The editors will thankfully receive news items and other matter likely to be of in- 

 terest to subscribers. Papers will be published, so far as possible, in the order of re- 

 ception. All extended contributions, at least, should be in the hands of the editor the 

 first of the month preceding publication. Reprints of contributions may be obtained 

 at cost. .Minor line figures will be reproduced without charge, but the engraving of larger 

 illustrations must be borne by contributors or the electrotypes supplied. The receipt 

 of all papers will be acknowledged.— Eds. 



Over a year ago the editor called attention to the advisability of 

 publishing certain matter, particularly general notes, in the Octo])er 

 and December issues, partly because it would limit the amount of 

 material awaiting publication early the following year, and also on 

 account of the gain to be derived in case discussion was desired. Our 

 gatherings afford unicpie opportunities for the discussion of papers 

 from a variety of standpoints. It would be most desirable if ento- 

 mologists could accpiire the habit of publishing, at least in abstract, 

 certain types of papers which they wished to have discussed at a 

 coming meeting. Announcements of investigations contemplated and 

 methods to be pursued are especially appropriate, and we trust that 

 something of the kind may be seen in the December issue. Such an- 

 nouncements and discussions, if they accomplished nothing else, would 

 bring those following similar lines into closer touch and might result 

 in extremely valuable cooperation. 



An article on a preceding page discusses one method by which the 

 economic entomologist may reach the public and opens a question of 

 much importance to many readers. Some years ago Doctor Forbes 

 placed himself on record as follows : " It is not the facts of ento- 

 mology we discover, but those which we persuade the farmer, the gar- 

 dener or the fruit grower to use diligently for the protection or the 

 preservation of his crops which make our entomology economic." 

 This statement is most emphatically true at the present time and the 

 entomologist who does not present his results to his clientage in a con- 

 vincing manner fails to perform a most important duty. The pre- 

 cise method must of necessity depend largely upon the character of 

 the work performed and especially upon local peculiarities, ^lethods 

 of great value in a community possessing small knowledge of general 

 entomology may be entirely inapplicable to a group of well informed 

 fruit growers or progressive men engaged in other lines of agriculture. 



