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time in the future. But before we come to anything like attempting 

 those great big-scale tests, we have got to have entomology better 

 organized, we have got to have our men trained up to handle things in 

 big ways and handle them cooperatively. A task like that would mean 

 an organization with millions of dollars to be used. I believe it is 

 possible, just as Dr. Ball does, that some day the boll-weevil will be 

 pushed back, and that we. will push back many other pests out of our 

 nation by cooperative work, just as the cattle tick has been almost 

 pushed out of this country simply through organized effort. 



Now we have almost pushed the pink boUworm out in the opera- 

 tions of this past year. I think we are going to come to the time when 

 we will do bigger tasks, but we must get on the broad basis of coopera- 

 tion and we must know our principles, we have got to be trained more 

 broadly than in the past. 



I want to make one correction to Dr. Ball's address, and that is 

 regarding his statement that the boll-weevil has only one food plant. 

 It has one other, a native wild plant which grows in the mountains 

 from Guatemala to Arizona. We have found some of the native 

 plants and woodlands of the south can to a limited extent serve as 

 hosts for it, so that even if we did suspend cotton growing, we might 

 find it in some of those other plants. 



Mr. E. D. Sanderson: Mr. Chairman, as I have not had the 

 pleasure of meeting with this association for some time and as I will 

 not be able to stay through the session, I want to now express my 

 appreciation of the president's address, because it is along lines which 

 have always appealed to me. 



The matter of training is one to which more attention may well be 

 given. At various sessions we have considered courses for graduate 

 work and study. It seems to me the association might give more 

 serious thought to graduate training in entomology, possibly through a 

 committee. I think the graduate training in the technical branches of 

 agriculture is one of the weak points of agricultural education. More 

 and more men are going, not to agricultural institutions, but to some 

 of our leading universities for graduate work in the pure sciences, and I 

 feel that the agricultural institutions have not had a large enough 

 vision of the training necessary in graduate work. There has been too 

 much tendency to look at the technical aspects of the subject and not 

 enough to fundamentals. 



It was my good fortune a couple of years ago to have a course on the 

 logic or method of science — rather an abstract thing many of you will 

 think — but I received more from that course than almost any other 

 course I have had. I had been working in science for some years and 

 I thought I knew something about science, but I had never given the 



