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This increased prestige often leads to sucii increased support that in- 

 stead of being a handicap to research, as appeared probable when the 

 work was commenced, it becomes a means of distinctl}^ furthering 

 original research. The chief point is that he who would go before 

 the public with a message of any sort, whether it be original or merely 

 demonstrational, must have a message that the people understand 

 and which touches their welfare. They would far rather be taught 

 how to utilize old knowledge that is of great value to' them, than to be 

 given tedious and unimportant information that is entirely new. The 

 support they give will be proportional to the benefit which they think 

 they have received. Demonstration meetings are very useful for 

 arousing interest. A good discussion of the value of these is given 

 by Prof. Franklin Sherman in No. 5, Vol. 2, of the Journal of Eco- 

 nomic Entomology. In Ohio we have made use of about the same 

 methods as Professor Sherman in conducting spraying demonstra- 

 tions. The railway companies are generally glad to distribute adver- 

 tising matter along their lines and to put up posters in their depots 

 throughout the territory that is likely to furnish excursionists to the 

 demonstration orchards. Considerably more important than spray- 

 ing demonstrations have been our field meetings to study results of 

 the season's work. The first of these was held in the Schmitkons 

 .orchard in the fall of 1907. The results of spraying in this orchard 

 are set forth in Bulletin 191 of the Ohio Station. Besides a detailed 

 explanation of how the spraying had been done on the different 

 plots, illustrated by a spraying outfit in action, water being used for 

 the liquid, a diversified program was prepared covering several phases 

 of orcharding. The station horticulturist was present and gave a 

 lecture on pruning and culture of the orchard, the station botanist 

 gave a lecture on orchard diseases, and a practical orchardist gave an 

 address on marketing and packing. 



All of the arrangements were made by the State Horticultural 

 Society, and so successful was the meeting that it was decided to have 

 an annual field meeting of the society each fall at some place where 

 practical lessons could be learned. The same general plan in regard 

 to program has been followed at subsequent meetings and while these 

 have not always been held in orchards that were in charge of the En- 

 tomological Department, entomological topics have always had 

 a place on the program. They have generally been held in an orchard 

 which was for the season in charge of some one of the station depart- 

 ments, but in some cases have been taken to the orchard of some 

 expert fruit-grower who was able to teach valuable lessons from his 

 orchards and his fruit-growing methods. The present autumn, the 

 field meeting was held at the Station orchards at Wooster. These 



