JOURNAL 



OF 



ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



Vol. 5 APRIL, 1912 No. 2 



Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting 

 of the American Association of Economic 

 Entomologists — (Continued) 



Morning Session, Thursday, December 28, 10 A. M. 



President F. L. Washburn: 'The meeting will please come to 

 order. The first thing on the program is the discussion of the Presi- 

 dent's address. Do you care to say anything upon the address? 

 Evidently not. We will go on with the program. The first paper ^vtU 

 ])e read by ]\Ir. Johanssen, entitled, "Wire Worms in Corn and 

 Potatoes." 



WIRE WORMS IN CORN AND POTATOES 



By O. A. JoHAXSSEX, Orono, Me. 

 (Withdrawn for publication elsewhere) 



President F. L. Washburn: Any discussion of this paper? 



W. C. O'Kane: We had one experience with wire worms in our 

 Horticultural Department at Durham, N. H., this year, and I should 

 like to have some one explain it. The Horticultural Department 

 started out on some tests with potatoes, on land that had been in 

 sod for forty years. Some of the plots were manured with common 

 barnyard manure; some were not. The wire worms were abundant 

 throughout the whole. The manured plots showed severe injury 

 from wire worms; the unmanured plots showed very little. 



President F. L. Washburn: Any other point to be brought out 

 in connection with this paper? I understand, Mr. Johannsen, that 

 you got negative results with Sherwin-Williams' soil fumigant. We 

 had the same experience in Minnesota, and I understand that Sherwin- 

 Williams have given it up. They tell me this — that it doesn't amount 

 to very much. 



The next paper will be presented by Dr. T. J. Headlee: 



