Mr. Fletcher. 
310 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
weight of the grain in addition to profit due to rise in price if he sells 
his grain in October-November instead of in April-May. Of course I 
am talking of Pusa conditions. 
At present we can only recommend storing in vessels with solid 
bottom and walls and open top with a layer of about four inches of 
dry fine (not coarse) sand. The difficulty is that the sand settles through 
the grain and exposes some of the grain especially near the walls. Pre- 
cautions should be taken against this. 
In reply to a question of the Bombay representative regarding 
efficacy of castor oil treatment commonly practised in Gujarat, it was 
said that castor oil retarded germination to a great extent and that 
mohwa, coconut, mustard and groundnut oils were better than castor 
oil but none of the oils rendered wheat immune. Besides that, oil 
made the grain very unsightly. 
I am afraid that it is getting late and we cannot go on much longer 
to-day and, as this is the last day, we must now terminate this Meeting. 
But, before we do so, I should like to say a few words :— 
Firstly, as I told you last week in my Opening Speech, we, the Staff 
of the Entomological Section at Pusa, have been very glad to see you, 
the Provincial Entomological Stafis and others interested, at this Meeting. 
We have gone through all these Crops together and reviewed the pests 
of each and have given one another all the information available re- 
garding these pests and their control, and I am quite sure that this 
mutual interchange and discussion of experiences has been of great 
benefit and interest to all of us. It is not only important for each of 
us to know what others have discovered and are doing but it is equally, 
perhaps more, important to find out what are some of the things that 
we do not know and which require investigation. The benefits of 
mutual association and discussion of knowledge already attained are 
obvious advantages of a Meeting of this kind, but it has seemed to me, 
both at our Meeting here two years ago and during the course of this 
present Meeting, that the dragging into prominence of the innumerable 
gaps in our knowledge of Indian Insects is an even more valuable result 
of these Meetings. 
Secondly, in order to render the results of these Meetings of perma- 
nent value, not only to ourselves who attended but also to others inter- 
ested, it is necessary to publish a Report as full as possible. Mr. G. R. 
Dutt has been taking notes during the present Meeting and later on 
I hope to go over these and make out for publication as complete a Report 
as we can. 
Thirdly, regarding our next Meeting, I cannot speak with authority 
but I believe that I am not giving away any secret in saying that the 
