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order to save the apiary. Luckily, on this island, it is possible 
to get tide-water at a depth of about three feet, so a moat about 
two feet wide and four feet deep was dug all around the apiary, 
and when this ditch was kept clean from trash it gave perfect 
protection. The ditching, however, did not prove entirely infal- 
lible, for four colonies were lost on account of a bridge across 
the moat made by a sweet-brier vine. 
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are who are competent to respond to these calls. Federal and 
state governments offer work of a more or less attractive nature, 
especially in plant quarantine departments, and those available 
for this class of work are fewer than the demand. Right here 
in Florida, for example, the State Plant Board and other agri- 
cultural agencies find much difficulty in maintaining a high 
degree of efficiency in their personnel, and if there is to be any 
great expansion we will have to go outside of the State to replen- 
ish our forces instead of being able to secure good material from 
our own state. This is not as it should be and reflects upon us. 
The University of Florida should be turning out men fit to 
successfully cope with graduates of other institutions of like 
nature in their chosen entomological profession, whether it be 
for agricultural or horticultural work, teaching, advising, po- 
licing or any of the related commercial lines. It impresses me 
that this applies more particularly to those men leaving the 
College of Agriculture than to any of the other colleges for, 
after all, Florida is essentially an agricultural and horticultural 
state. The College of Agriculture should rank favorably with 
or exceed the great institutions of similar nature in other states. 
Its entomological work should be materially strengthened. There 
are vast opportunities here for the development of a Department 
of Entomology which are almost unparalleled in these United 
States. Our State College of Agriculture should not only be a 
Mecca for young students just beginning collegiate work but for 
advanced students as well. I am only too well aware that to 
accomplish such a great project will require time, patience and 
last, but not least, money. However, this is no reason why we 
should not look to the future, make suitable plans and then try 
to accomplish them, even though the beginnings be small. 
The speaker has been informed that the budget which has 
