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Pathology and in Agrictdtural Chemistry. This paper is in the nature 

 of a brief statement of the progress of this movement during the past 

 twelve months and what appear to be its prospects. 



Shortly after the Association met at Chicago a year ago, the first 

 regular meeting of the Crop Protection Institute was held at 

 Rochester, N. Y. At that time a modification of the control of the 

 Institute was worked out, was submitted to all the members and was 

 adopted. The management of the Institute, therefore, is now in the 

 hands of a Board of Governors, made up exclusively of scientific men, 

 three of whom are chosen by the American Association of Economic 

 Entomologists, three by the American Phytopathological Society, 

 two by the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists and one by 

 the National Research Council, making nine members in all. This Board 

 is responsible for the direction of the Institute. 



In addition, provision has been made for the setting up of Boards 

 of Trustees of three members for any industrial division that may be 

 created within the Institute. Such a Board is responsible for the finan- 

 ces of its own division and sits in conference with the Board of Governors 

 in consideration of m.atters relating to its division. 



The first accomplishment of general interest carried through by the 

 Institute was a conference on control of the cotton boll weevil by dust- 

 ing. This conference was held in New York and was attended by scien- 

 tists representing the Bureau of Entom.ology and by a number of man- 

 ufacturers producing poison dusts and dusting machinery. The pur- 

 pose was to standardize recomjmendations and to correct errors. The 

 situation was discussed frankly and fully. Following the conference 

 a concise statement of rules relating to dusting for boll weevil was pre- 

 pared by experts of the Bureau and was placed by the Institute in the 

 hands of manufacturers to be transmitted by them to their salesmen, 

 agents and retailers. 



At a meeting of the Board of Governors in January preliminary plans 

 were drawn up for a cooperative dusting project, to be carried out under 

 the direction and with the assistance of the Institute, the actual ex- 

 perimental work to be in charge of the entomologists and plant patholo- 

 gists in the several states taking part in the project. This plan was 

 carried through successfully and with interesting results. The neces- 

 sary materials were provided b}^ manufacturers. The experiments in 

 the several states were carried out on parallel lines. The investigation 

 was conducted jointly in New York state, Pennsylvania and West 

 Virginia. A director of the project, selected by the Board, visited the 

 various plots, and at the close of the season there was a meeting to ex- 

 amine data. 



