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it to get literature to a vast number of farmers; this literature con- 

 sisting of extension bulletins, Farmers' Library and similar matter, 

 as well as press sheets to state papers and the press at large. 



The good accomplished by such work is great, though not always 

 unmixed with disadvantages, for since the extension division staff is 

 not made up altogether of specialists, and one man frequently has to 

 talk upon a number of subjects in different fields, an entomologist is 

 somewhat surprised, to say the least, at incorrect or half complete 

 information in his line, emanating from such a division, and inasmuch 

 as the entomological division gets blame or praise for anything in 

 the insect line coming from the experiment station, I believe all 

 questions relative to insects, received by the agricultural extension 

 division should be referred to him, and that, in general, the work 

 along different agricultural lines, as representing the different divisions, 

 should be directed by the specialists on the station staff, whose work 

 it concerns. This was, as stated above, evidently the original 

 intention in establishing the division, and a plan which should be 

 followed in any experiment station or agricultural college proposing 

 this feature. 



In November of the current year it was my privilege to hear Presi- 

 dent Butterfield discuss Agricultural Extension at the Columbus 

 meeting. It seems that thirty-two states have agricultural extension 

 in some form. It further appears to have been the idea of the com- 

 mittee that the extension division should be thoroughly co-operative 

 when it is a part of an agricultural college, and that it should not act 

 independently of other divisions. Technical subjects presented by 

 the extension division should either be handled by station men 

 directly engaged in such questions, or by extension men acting under 

 the supervision of the station specialists. Otherwise we are apt to 

 find the station men and agricultural college professors advancing 

 ideas to students quite at variance with those promulgated over the 

 state by the extension force. It would seem, then, that unless exten- 

 sion divisions feel the importance of this co-operation, and act accord- 

 ingly, they fail in their purpose. It has further been suggested that 

 not only should the extension division help the farmers along the lines 

 indicated above, but that it is equally its duty to bring to the notice 

 of station workers, agricultural conditions prevailing in different parts 

 of the state which call for special attention. 



7. The Relations of an Economic Entomologist to his Fellow Ento- 

 mologists, and the Relations of this Association to the Public: 



Surely these yearly meetings are of inestimable value, not only in 

 affording each entomologist an opportunity to bring back to his state 



