144 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 9 



We planned at first to publish daily, in the county papers, the record 

 of the hatch and of egg-laying, to insure control of the more hasty 

 farmers, but Mr. Eastwood judged this to be unnecessary, and so the 

 record was not published until September 27, when I advised that the 

 signal be given to seed. Mr. Eastwood' was able to learn of only a few 

 fields in the county that had been sown at that time. Nearly all of 

 the seeding was done between October 1 and October 20 and during 

 the fall developed no fly. The prospects for a good crop, wholly free 

 from the fly over the whole county, would be perfect were it not for the 

 numerous puparia which have developed in volunteer wheat, scattered 

 through the clover fields, many of which have not even been pastured. 

 Puparia can be found quite plentifully even in rather closely grazed 

 clover fields. 



A similar plan was followed in Clermont County, but, owing to a 

 later beginning, w^as not so generally successful. However, County 

 Agent Herron expressed the belief that a great majority of his farmers 

 had awaited his advice, and that in another year the cooperation could 

 be made practically unanimous. Very similar results were reached in 

 one of the townships of Greene County, adjoining Miami, the unofficial 

 management there awaiting the advice of Mr. Eastwood, because they 

 had no county agent, nor any county farm of their ov/n, on which to 

 conduct the breeding tests. 



Cooperative sowing in Ohio is bound to be only partially successful 

 during droughty years, because of the flies issuing so tardily and ir- 

 regularly from the stubble fields, seeded to clover, which cannot be 

 plowed under; and where the seeding has been timed to give perfect 

 success, the final harvest will be somewhat doubtful in all years, unless 

 we can separate the production of wheat and clover. 



President Glenn W. Herrick: Is there any discussion of these 

 two papers? 



Secretary A. F, Burgess: One point in Mr. Dean's paper which 

 struck me very forcibly was that all these entomologists, agricul- 

 turists and newspaper men told the same story. That is one of the 

 places where our entomological work and extension work frequently 

 falls down — too many cooks. The arrangement of having all the lec- 

 turers tell the same story and the newspapers give the same report 

 is a wonderful thing. It is something that should be copied in 

 other endeavors of the same kind. A train that goes out for the 

 purpose of distributing information should distribute information that 

 does not contradict. 



President Glenn W. Herrick: I have been impressed with the 

 value of these two papers as illustrative of effective and successful 



