AUTUMN NUMBER 17 
on citrus insert a beak into the trees for the extraction of 
juices. Neither do they know what this beak looks like, nor do 
they know the appearance of the young insects. 
About a year ago we visited the foreman of six groves in 
company with the State Superintendent of these groves. We 
carried a binocular microscope with us in order to show each 
foreman the insects present. First a trip was made through 
the grove and such pests as were present were found and more 
or less instruction was given in the grove. Samples of these 
pests were then taken to some convenient place where they 
were examined under the microscope. An attempt was made 
to be more or less systematic in presenting this information. 
We showed them the eggs, young and adults of the most serious 
pests in their particular grove. No attempt was made to give 
instruction about insects which were not found in the grove. 
We also attempted to give instructions regarding beneficial in- 
sects, parasites and friendly fungi. Methods for the control of 
these pests were then discussed as each insect was examined. 
It would appear that this trip was of great value to the fore- 
man in question, and the superintendent asked me to set apart 
a week so that the men could come to Orlando for further in- 
struction. 
- Since this first series of meetings met with such success it 
was thought advisable to have additional meetings where the 
growers of a community might take advantage of seeing insects. 
We held six meetings, all of which were apparently very suc- 
cessful. It was soon found out, however, that such instruction 
and demonstrations should be accompanied with either a 
printed or a mimeographed synopsis of the information given. 
This office has had in mind for some time the preparation of 
such a course for those people who have spraying demonstra- - 
tions for this office, but so far nothing has ever been done. 
These meetings have demonstrated to this office that a labora- 
tory, or a demonstration, or a seminar should be carried to the 
grower as an individual. We see that our efforts in having the 
individual come to us have not been entirely satisfactory or 
successful. It is now up to us to take the results of our re- 
searches direct to the grower. This is now being done to a 
limited extent by the county demonstration agents and we look 
to them to add a half million dollars annually to the citrus in- 
dustry. 
