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The danger of spread is so great, the probabiUties of successful control under Amer- 

 ican conditions so unpromising, that we unhesitatingly recommend most energetic 

 measures to control this very serious enemy of our principal grain crop. The immen- 

 sity of the interests threatened leads us to advise a comprehensive plan of action 

 which may involve the expenditure by the general government of much larger sums 

 than are recommended in these resolutions. 



We urge the present Congress to appropriate and make available for use as rapidly 

 as an effective organization to carry on the work can be secured and developed, in 

 •addition to funds already available, two million dollars, the sum to be requested for 

 the calendar year of 1920, to be determined by the future developments of the work. 

 We would at this time call attention to the necessity of all commissioners of agri- 

 culture and entomologists throughout the United States of America and Canada, 

 taking an active interest in this insect, and we would hereby urge the dissemination 

 of information respecting the situation by the appropriate agencies in each state 

 and by the Federal Government. 



We would recommend for the purpose of promoting the control and extermination 

 of this borer the appointment of a committee representing the commissioners of agri- 

 culture, official entomologists and the Plant Pest Committee for the purpose of uni- 

 fying and directing all efforts for the securing of appropriations and to aid in the 

 determination of a comprehensive policy. 



C. P. NoRGORD, Commissioner of Agriculture, Wisconsin. 



Charles McCaffree, Industrial Commissioner, S. Dakota. 



Wilfrid Wheeler, Commissioner of Agriculture, Massachusetts. 



E. P. Felt, State Entomologist, New York. 



George A. Dean, Professor of Entomology, Experiment Station, Kansas. 



R. W. Harned, State Entomologist, Mississippi. 



Committee on Resolutions. 



Among those in attendance, the following entomologists were 

 noticed: E. D. Ball, Iowa; A. F. Conradi, South Carolina; E. N. Cory, 

 T. B. Symons, Maryland; E. C. Cotton, Ohio; G. A. Dean, Kansas; 

 E. P. Felt, P. J. Parrott, G. W. Herrick, J. G. Needham, C. R. Crosby, 

 M. D. Leonard, D. B. Young, E. A. Rundlett, New York; H. T. Fer- 

 nald, W. M. Wheeler, C. T. Brues, Massachusetts; W. P. FUnt, Illi- 

 nois; Philip Garman, W. E. Britton, Connecticut; R. W. Harned, 

 Mississippi; T. J. Headlee, John J. Davis, New Jersey; H. E. Hodgkiss, 

 Pennsylvania; Wilmon Newell, Florida; W. C. O'Kane, New Hamp- 

 shire; R. H. Pettit, Michigan; A. G. Ruggles, Minnesota; E. E. SchoU, 

 Texas; A. E. Stene, Rhode Island; C. G. Hewitt, J. B. McLaine, Wil- 

 liam Lochhead, Dominion of Canada; L. O. Howard, C. L. Marlatt, 

 A. F. Burgess, W. R. Walton, L. H. Worthley, D. J. Caffrey, R. I. 

 ■ Smith, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



The proceedings of the conference will be published at an early 

 • date by the New York State Department of Farms and Markets, 

 Division of Agriculture. A copy may be secured by application to 

 JHon. C. S. Wilson, Commissioner of Agriculture, Albany, N. Y. 



W. E. B. 



