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when we read that "careful examination of the ealiees by Dr. Headlee 

 failed to show any spray lodged beneath the stamens or in the calyx 

 cavity proper." An attempt was made to apply Western methods 

 to Eastern conditions, that is to fill the lower calyx cup with poison 

 as the best treatment for the codling moth, but the most essential 

 point was neglected, — the spray was not shot doivn and was not put 

 in the only place where it was needed. 



All of which reminds me of the early troubles in the East over the 

 sulphur-lime wash ; how the impractical spraying of a couple of ento- 

 mologists induced a neglect of a tried remedy, known to be completely 

 effective on the Pacific coast, wdth a consequent ruin of millions of 

 dollars of orchard property. Since, "in a second bulletin from the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, the chemical reactions of the wash 

 were set forth and it was shown almost conclusively that sulphur-lime 

 could not reasonably be expected to be of much value in the moist 

 East" (Bull. 37, p. 55, U. S. Bureau of Entomology). This neglect 

 might have continued until today had not Dr. Forbes' experiment of 

 washing off the spray Avith a pump and yet finding the scale dead, 

 or the successes of a few practical fruit growers awakened official 

 entomologists to the fact that something was wrong. This neglect of 

 the sulphur-lime wash in the East has had an important economic 

 bearing, since probably as much as any one factor it has been respon- 

 sible for the transfer of interest in fruit growing from the East to 

 the West. 



Now% the purpose of this paper is not to antagonize Eastern ento- 

 mologists, but to call attention to the fact that a most important field 

 is still open for investigation. The success of careful filling of the 

 calyx cup has been too universal in the far West to believe it is in- 

 applicable elscAvhere. If some Eastern entomologist will actually 

 spray as we do in this region and give our methods the trial they 

 deserve, the sole purpose of this article will have been accomplished. 

 But an apathy to successful methods if continued will be detrimental 

 to the profession of economic entomology, especially when the insects 

 concerned are as prominent as the San Jose scale and the codling 

 moth. 



REPORT OF THE SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF HORTICULTURAL 



INSPECTORS 



The sixth annual meeting of this association was held at the 

 Windsor-Clifton Hotel, Chicago, 111., December 27, 1907. Mr. A. F. 

 Burgess, Washington, D. C presided and Prof. James Troop, La- 



