February, '14] ENTOMOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS 27 



bulletins, can originate as well and perhaps better, in the Association itself, after a 

 consideration and discussion of our respective reports, than from the committee. 

 You will, therefore, please regard our respective comments and recommendations as 

 individual opinions, entitled to as much, and, perhaps, to very little, if any more, 

 consideration than the opinions of any other three members of the Association; for 

 while we have faithfully endeavored to execute the commission given to us, the 

 practical difficulties of getting the information desired has precluded the possibility 

 of reaching very definite conclusions. Therefore, respectively- submitting such 

 information as we were able to collect, and claiming our right to be listened to as 

 individuals in discussing the same, we beg the privilege of throwdng the questions 

 pertaining thereto before the Association without any recommendations as a com- 

 mittee. 



H. A. GOSSARD, 



R. L. Webster, 

 F. L. Washburn, 



Coynmillee. 

 Report from Ohio 



I have utilized three different methods for getting the information desired by the 

 Association as to the acceptability of Station entomological publications. Assuming 

 that the publications of the Ohio Station may be taken as fairly rejiresentative of 

 American entomological publications in general, the data I have collected may pos- 

 sess some little significance; but, each member must decide for himself as to what 

 particular merits or demerits of our publications gain acceptability or unpopularity 

 for them, as he conceives them to rise above or fall below the average standard at- 

 tained by other institutions. 



The first method emploj^ed by me to ascertain the attitude of an average farming 

 commimity was to utilize the sei'^nces of the Ohio Rural Survey and have a house- 

 to-hou.se canvass made over Knox County, Ohio, the Surveyors making use of the 

 following registration blank: — ■ 



Township? County? 



Name? Address? 



(Mr. H. A. Gossard, entomologist of the Ohio Agricultural Ex-periment Station 

 at Wooster asks that we get answers to the following questions. The questions 

 as you see we use for house-to-house work. I should think if five farmers in a 

 township were interviewed, it would be satisfactory. [Note by Superintendent 

 OF Survey.]) 



1. Do you read the entomological bulletins of the Experiment Station? 



2. Do you preserve them for reference? Do you refer to them as occasion demands? 



3. How could these bulletins be improved so as to be more usable? 



a. By a different arrangement of matter? 



b. By more illustrations? 



c. In any other way? 



I have no means of knowing how the five farmers per towaship were selected, as 

 I gave no instructions concerning the method, and did not know until I received the 

 reports that any farmers whatever were being omitted from interview. I presume, 

 therefore, that the farmers were taken at random and that their returns are fairly 

 representative of what would have been obtained from almost any fairly good agri- 

 cultural locality in the state. 



Xumber of farmers interviewed, 56; number receiving the Station bulletins, 35; 

 not on the mailing hst, 21. Out of the 35 on the mailing list, 33 read the entomolog- 

 ical bulletias and two do not. Out of the 33 readers, 23 file them for reference, and 

 22 report that they actually use them as references from time to time. Eleven do 



