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mostly annual. I would like to see a committee appointed with a 

 fairly permanent tenure of office, to take up this matter now, and also 

 go a little bit further and see an amendment to the constitution which 

 would result in remodeling our Executive Committee and at least 

 have a majority — perhaps of this committee — swung over into the 

 Executive Committee by due process and be responsible for the gen- 

 eral policy of the association. 



Mr. Z. p. Metcalf: I move that the motion be laid upon the 

 table until the business session. We have several conflicting views 

 and as this is a very important matter, I think it ought to be consid- 

 ered thoroughly before action is taken. The suggestion, I believe, is 

 a good one, but better results will be secured if careful consideration 

 is given before the motion is adopted. 



By vote of the association, the motion was laid on the table until 

 the business session. Final action on this matter will be found in Part 

 I of this report. 



President E. D. Ball resumed the chair. 



President E. D. Ball: The next paper will be by H. A. Gossard, 

 entitled, "The Ohio Wheat Survey." 



THE OHIO WHEAT SURVEY 



By H. A. Gossard, Wooster, Ohio, and T. H. Parks, Columbus, Ohio 



For two seasons Ohio farmers have had the results of a state-wide 

 survey of wheat enemies to guide them in deciding if wheat growing 

 would likely be a safe agricultural project and when the seeding could 

 most advantageously be made. The plan of operation, the cost of the 

 work and the results obtained may be items of considerable interest to 

 the wheat-producing states, while states largely engaged in the pro- 

 duction of any important agricultural staple or staples will doubtless 

 find material of interest in this review. 



General Plan of the Survey 



The survey of 1917 was organized and directed by the senior author, 

 that of 1918 by the authors conjointly. Back of both surveys was the 

 cordial endorsement and help of the entomological departments of the 

 State University and of the State Department of Agriculture, without 

 which aid it would have been practically impossible to carry the proj- 

 ect to success. Field surveyors were drawn from all these depart- 

 ments and all had a share in financing the last survey though the first 

 was financed wholly by the Experiment Station. 



The idea behind the survey has been not to make it deal exclusively 

 with wheat insects, but to gather at the same time as much knowledge 



