February, '22] dean: presidential address 51 



Cooperation With Industrial Concerns and Other 

 Private Agencies 



Many illustrations could be given of splendid results accomplished 

 by entomologists' cooperating with industrial concerns and other 

 private agencies. As one studies this problem, he is increasingly 

 impressed with the many possibilities offered, and the numerous fields 

 practically untouched. Along these lines, Parrott, a foremost student 

 of this kind of cooperation, and our representative on the National 

 Research Council, in his report a year ago to this Association, says 

 "There also exists a large opportunity for enlisting the support of men 

 of affairs, who can assist in coordinating civilian enterprises with ento- 

 mological activities and shaping public sentiment in its judgment of 

 the character and efficiency of entomological efforts in behalf of national 

 welfare. Industrial concerns, individually and collectively, are pre- 

 pared to grant funds for the investigation of special practical problems." 



In the Crop Protection Institute affiliated with the National Re- 

 search Council and endorsed bv this Association, there is a splendid 

 organization for doing cooperative work with industrial concerns and 

 with their cooperation and their support to accomplish some really 

 stupendous tasks. 



Cooperation With The Public in Insect Control 



This represents one of the most important phases of economic ento- 

 mological work, since in the last analysis the ultimate purpose of our 

 studies and research is to discover and develop practical methods of 

 insect control and to serve the public, not only by devising machinery 

 for the practical operation of these methods, but also in assisting in the 

 running of this machinery. The Crop Protection Institute affords a 

 much needed organization for cooperative work on general problems 

 of insect control. If it receives the proper support, it should be able 

 to establish a unity of interest and demonstrate the possibiHties and 

 value of regional cooperative insect control. 



Undoubtedly the greatest and most important organization for 

 concerted action in insect control is the state and county farm bureau. 

 It is difficult for the writer to understand why some of our station and 

 state entomologists are not using this splendid piece of machinery. 

 That the county fann bureaus within a state can be organized into an 

 efficient machine which can be thrown into action and present a solid 

 front within a period of two or three days is no theory. It is this 

 organization that makes it possible for the farmers of Kansas effectively 

 to control the Hessian fly infestations and the grasshopper and army 

 worm outbreaks. 



