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meetings were given where the treatment of foulbroed was shown and 
many other phases of beekeeping actually demonstrated. 
Another service we have been able to render the beekeepers was secur- 
ing sugar to feed colonies which were short of stores. All during the sugar 
shortage we have been able to secure sugar for all beekeepers in actual 
need of sugar and this fall we have again supplied many tons of sugar 
when it could be secured in no other way. 7 
Under the Conservation Act we have very broad powers and the Division 
of Entomology should be able to handle any emergency that may arise in 
insect or plant disease control. It was this very fact that we did have the 
power to handle such situations that helped us this summer at Wash- 
ington when the Federal Horticultural Board was considering placing 
a quarantine against the shipment of all small grains out of this state, 
because they believed the “‘Take-All” disease of wheat was established 
here. The Chairman of that board, Dr. Marlatt, said he hoped some 
day each state would see the wisdom of giving broad enough powers 
to a commission or board so that emergencies such as ours, could be handled 
by the states themselves, without the federal government having to establish 
quarantines against them. 
You would naturally suppose that any excitement caused by an insect 
outbreak would be to our liking, yet we often bend our efforts to allay 
the excitement rather than add fuel to the flames. The army worm scare 
this summer will illustrate this. While in the southern part of the state, 
I had an urgent call to go to Henry County and when I arrived there a 
day late I found about two or three thousand farmers and other volun- 
teers out digging trenches around wheat and rye fields. Not one trench 
in a hundred was effective and in only one case was trenching really 
necessary. I asked the newspapers to publish the real facts in regard to 
the army worm situation in their county and to get the farmers back to 
work on their corn which needed cultivation. The army worm panic 
cost $30,000 a day in that county as a farmer's time was worth at least 
$10.00 per day in his corn fields and the trenches that were dug were 
worse than useless. The army worm scare did an immense amount of 
damage because the first people on the ground did not understand condi- 
tions. I saved many counties from having a similar panic by getting 
there in time to allay their fears by showing the real conditions. 
The florists have many perplexing insect problems and have had very 
little systematic help in any of the states. Their problems are differ- 
ent from the farmers or gardeners in that they do not have seasonal con- 
trols such as the winter brings to the farmers. With the thermometer 
held at a growing temperature the insect pests Can multiply all year unless 
artificial means are used to control or exterminate them. A wide range 
of plants is often grown under one roof and an insecticide, which will give 
results on one plant, will ruin the foliage on others. I am hoping to be 
able to give the florists and greenhouse men more assistance along these 
lines and have plans under way to assign a man to this work this winter. 
We have rendered much valuable assistance to the florists but I would 
