JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



OCTOBER, 1917 



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Crop production and food conservation have received much atten- 

 tion this season and will be given more another year. The large 

 appropriations ($145,775 allotted to the Bureau of Entomology) just 

 made for this work by the federal government are none too great for 

 the country as a whole, especially when we remember that it is impos- 

 sible to wage a successful contest on an inadequate food supply. The 

 practical side of entomology never has had a better chance to demon- 

 strate its utility and more will be demanded along this line another 

 year. It should not be forgotten that we are dealing with living 

 organisms and while prognosis is possible to some extent, much can 

 not be foreseen. The organization which wins will be a flexible one, 

 planned upon comprehensive lines and adapted to rapid changes. 

 The probable should be anticipated, the improbable guarded against 

 and the work at all times be upon a practical basis. 



The above considerations compel the limiting of major activities to 

 the control of the more important pests along lines of demonstrated 

 utility. The shortage of help is favorable to the increased use of 

 machinery and it is quite possible that in some localities wholesale 

 spraying on a scale hitherto considered impractical would be entirely 

 feasible. The problem is to secure the gi-eatest possible protection 

 from insect depredations with a minimum expenditure of effort. 

 This suggests the practicability of high power spraying outfits manned 

 by trained crews in sections where there is great need for spraying. 

 Insecticides are of little value without spraying machinery. The next 



