54 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 15 



Aftenwon Session, Thursday, December 2Q, iq2I 



The session Vv^as called to order at 1.30 p. m. by Vice-President Arthur 

 Gibson, and the first paper was presented by Mr. E. G. Kelly. 



COOPERATION OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES WITH HIGH 



SCHOOLS AND RURAL SCHOOLS IN ECONOMIC 



ENTOMOLOGY 



By E. G. Kelly. Extension Entomologist, Kansas State Agricultural College 



In teaching entomology to students of agriculture in high schools and 

 rural schools to-day, we are training leaders for "Insect Control Teams" 

 in the insect out-breaks of tomorrow. With this slogan in mind, the 

 writer began working with high school students in 1915, even before he 

 took up work with the Kansas Agricultural College. Mr. E. A. White 

 was elected teacher of agriculture in the Sumner County High School of 

 Wellington, Kansas for the term of 1915-16. I was appointed chairman 

 of the committee on agricultural projects by the board of trustees and 

 directed by them, to outline the agricultural project work for the high 

 school. Among the other projects undertaken by the agricultural class 

 was insect control. During the fall of 1920 and again in 1921, Mr. 

 W. A. Boys, County Agent of Sumner County, used some of the boys 

 who received entomological training in 1915-16 in organizing his chinch 

 bug burning campaign. He found that these men had been so well 

 drilled that further explanation was unnecessary, thus making his work 

 much more efficient than where untrained men were used. 



In 191S, shortly after assimiing my present duties as extension ento- 

 mologist of the Kansas State Agricultural College, I was working on 

 grasshopper control in western Kansas, a report of which was presented 

 to the America Association of Economic Entomology at the St. Louis 

 meeting. In this report no mention was made of the work done through 

 the rural high schools. In Pawnee County, Mr. R. P. Schnake and the 

 writer worked in three schools during the spring term, teaching the 

 agricultural classes how to mix and distribute poison bran mash. In 

 the immediate vicinity of these three schools the grasshoppers were 

 controlled during the outbreak in the fall of 1918, and these boys were 

 used as instructors by the county agent in the campaign against the 

 grasshoppers in 1919. These two instances are sufficient to show the 

 possibilities of cooperation between the college, the high schools and the 

 rural schools. 



In the early spring of 1920, this cooperation was continued by organ- 

 izing orchard management teams in classes in vocational agriculture, 

 at Ashland, Bucyrus, Effingham, Bonner Springs, Oskaloosa and 

 Lawrence. These teams were trained in pruning and spraying; the 



