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FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST 
Official Organ of The Florida Entomological Society, Gainesville, 
Florida. 
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IWUETIRTOIN, INGO WEIL oe ee ee Associate Editor 
JN. LG bad] 34 0) 42 eR BC ck Business Manager 
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vance; 385 cents per copy. 
AN ENLARGED NUMBER 
In order to have the time of publication of the different vol- 
umes of the ENTOMOLOGIST coincide with the calendar year it 
has been decided to combine in this issue the remaining two 
numbers of volumes VIII. With the New Year we will begin 
Volume IX. 
AEROPLANE DUSTING COMING 
Last month a private concern carried on demonstrations in 
Georgia in dusting cotton fields and peach orchards from an 
aeroplane, with a view to signing up the farmers for the sea- 
son’s dusting. The demonstration is said by those who followed 
it closely to have been a success. Not only was the dusting 
cheaper, but the distribution was more uniform than that se- 
cured from machines operating from the ground. 
It would seem that dusting citrus groves for rust mite should 
offer a particularly attractive field for aeroplane dusting. It 
could be applied at the optimum time. A single plane could 
dust all the groves in a county in a few days at most. 
PERSONALS 
Dr. P. H. Rolfs, who has spent the past four years in Minas 
Geraes, Brazil, establishing an agricultural college and experi- 
ment station at Vicosa, is back in Florida for the winter. He 
addressed the Phi Kappa Phi Society of the university on De- 
