JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



APRIL, 1917 



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Our country has entered a gigantic struggle in which material assets 

 of many kinds play a most important part. There is urgent need for 

 the conservation and development of all resources — life, health, food — 

 to designate a few having a close relation to applied entomology. An 

 army or na\^ can accomplish little without the foregoing essentials. 

 There are many openings for the economic entomologist to demon- 

 strate the utility of his calling. The urgent need of better camp sani- 

 tation, so far as insects are concerned, warrants an entomological staff 

 attached to every large camp and hospital center and associated with 

 the medical or sanitary corps in handling insect problems, particularly 

 flies and other disease carriers, though body parasites and animal pests 

 should not be ignored. These men should have a rank which would 

 give weight to then- recommendations, resources which would permit 

 intensive studies of the entire problem if necessary, and facilities for 

 the practical application of results to field and camp conditions. The 

 work in the various localities should be coordinated and directed by a 

 supervising entomologist in order to ensure the greatest efficiency. 



It falls to the economic entomologist more than anyone else to ad- 

 vise and urge the adoption of measures which will minimize the effect 

 of insect ravages, especially upon staple crops. Dr. Jloward, of the 

 Bureau of Entomology, is organizing his forces to bring before the coun- 

 try at large information of immediate value in insect control, and now 

 seeks the cooperation of American entomologists on reporting unusual 

 insect outbreaks. Observers in the southern portions of the country 



