JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



AUGUST, 1919 



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The Albany Conference on the European Corn Borer situation 

 should accomplish two things. It should first of all aim to give all 

 those attending the fullest possible information respecting the insect 

 and the condition of the infested territory. Much of the former is 

 familiar to entomologists though there have been a number of new 

 developments during the summer. The more salient facts concerning 

 the status of the borer as a pest and the possibility of exterminating 

 it should receive special consideration at the hands of all present. 

 There will be an opportunity of examining the infested territory in 

 both New York and Massachusetts at a time when the work may be 

 expected to show to best advantage and this should not be neglected 

 by any having more or less responsibility for the control of injurious 

 insects in the corn growing sections of the United States. 



The main object of the conference is to agree upon a policy which 

 will be acceptable alike to scientists and administrators, and one that 

 can be carried to a successful conclusion. The possible as well as the 

 practical should receive due attention and most important of all, an 

 effort should be made to depict clearly the ultimate results of the 

 various policies, if there be different ones advocated. The American 

 people are coming to rely more and more on the decisions of experts. 

 The apparently impossible is becoming commonplace in these stirring 

 days. This conference may mean the beginning of startling develop- 

 ments in insect control. It is for the entomologists of this country 

 to anticipate the future so far as practicable and present a feasable 

 program and then stand as a unit for its execution. 



