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Mr. Gillette felt it a tliity to test an insecticide whenever he 

 believed that it was liable to do injury to the people of his own State. 



Mr. Burgess called attention to the fact that we often knew, before 

 testing, that a remedy would be a failure, and yet, in order to satisfy 

 the people and have them follow our recommendations, it was neces- 

 sary to make an actual test. For instance, there had been introduced 

 a panacea for pear l^light and peach yellows, which was to be used by 

 washing the outside of the trees. Although, of course, this could not 

 possibly be efficient, it was necessary actually to test it. 



Mr. Feniald believed that the testing of proprietary insecticides 

 was a matter for cooiieration.. Each station can not analyze all of 

 them, yet the people of the country ha^'e a right to know of the 

 existence of good prejiarations. He believed that in each of the main 

 divisions of the country one station might assume this testing for' a 

 certain period, others taldng it up afterwards in rotation. Mr. 

 Phillips felt that this should be done. In Virginia it appeared to be 

 necessary to give this information to the people to protect them from 

 fraud, but it was impossible to test everything. Mr, Quaintance 

 called attention to the fact that the Association of Official Agricul- 

 tural Chemists has such a system of cooperative tests. Mv. Slinger- 

 land believed that e\en after these tests were made many people 

 would not believe in them. They Avant to find out by their own 

 experience what the truth is. Mr. Surface dissented frouL this view 

 to some extent, believing that part of the people at least do accept 

 our reports. Mr. Smith said that he received many advertisements, of 

 curculio remedies accompanied by the question, " Do 3'ou know any- 

 thing of this? " 



Mr. Fernald moA'ed that a committee of three be aj^pointed to con- 

 sider the (luestion of cooperation in the testing of insecticides and 

 j^roju-ietary preparations, to report at the next annual meeting. The 

 motion was carried, and the chair appointed as such committee 

 Messrs. H. T. Fernald, H. A. Surface, and A. T. Burgess. 



The following paper was read: 



THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE PREDATORY INSECTS INTRO- 

 DUCED INTO NEW JERSEY. 



By John B. Smith, Xeir Bru>isiric/:. \. J. 



Ever since the introduction of the San Jose or pernicious scale 

 into New Jersey, the question of securing the assistance of predatory 

 insects to exterminate or at least control it has been more or less 

 continuously before the farmers and fruit growers, and of necessity 

 before the entomologist as well. The subject is an old one. It has 

 been before A^arious meetings of farmers, fruit growers, and entomolo- 

 gists, and it has been discussed from all sides. That a measure of 



