JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



FEBRUARY, 1916 



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History has been made in the last few weeks. We now have a 

 fully organized Pacific Slope Branch. If it was a good idea, it should 

 be consummated at once, and after due consideration, we are con- 

 vinced that the action taken will receive the hearty approval of the 

 entire membership. In reality, the scope of the organization has not 

 been extended. It amounts, in final analj^sis, to a practical recogni- 

 tion of the difficulties the western entomologist experiences in attend- 

 ing meetings in the east. We extend to our western confreres the 

 right hand of felloAvship. May the bonds strengthen as time passes. 



Entomology becomes economic in proportion to the saving effected. 

 The account of the Hessian fly train and the discussion of county 

 cooperation against this pest are both striking examples of applied 

 or economic entomology — the type that actually saves something. 

 Knowledge applied is power; knowledge unused should be placed in 

 the same category as the idle talent and may even be the occasion 

 of merited rebuke. It does not follow that the entomologist without 

 a special train, or the more or less general cooperation of a county, 

 is remiss. He may be and we think most are accomplishing much 

 in somewhat ciuieter ways. The extension entomologist, a term 

 which has come into use within a few years, is a most useful individual 

 and is able through specialization along one line to meet and show a 

 very large number just how the best results can be secured. All 

 entomologists must resort to such methods if they would secure 



