l897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 37 



DEPARTMENT OF EGONOMIG ENTOMOLOGY. 



Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, ScD., New Brunswick, N. J. 



Papers for this department are solicited. They should be sent to the editor. Prof. John 

 B. Smith, Sc.D., Xew Brunswick, N.J. 



Abstract of the Proceedings of the Section on Entomology of the Associa- 

 tion Agric Coll. and Exp. Stations.— At the meeting of the A. A. A. C. and 



E. S. held in Washington, Nov. ia-13, 1896, the Section on Entomology 

 presented an interesting and valuable program. Dr. Otto Lugger, of 

 Minnesota, occupied the chair, and in the absence of the secretary-elect, 

 Mr. W. G. Johnson, of Maryland, was elected temporarily to the position. 



The need of better legislation against noxious insects, the manufacture 

 and sale of bogus insecticides, were topics that received an extended dis- 

 cussion at the opening session. The report of the committee appointed 

 to consider the matter of legislation against injurious insects was unani- 

 mously adopted by the Section and referred to the Executive Committee 

 of the main association, but was not approved. The following resolution 

 was then introduced by Mr. W. B. Alwood, of Virginia, and unanimously 

 adopted by the Section : 



Whereas, in consideration of the fact of the recent alarming spread 

 of the San Jose scale in the Atlantic and Middle States, and the further 

 fact that we believe its suppression can only be accomplished by carefully 

 framed laws which should be enacted in the several States, therefore be it 



Resolved, ist. That the Section on Entomology of the American Asso- 

 ciation "of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations endorses the 

 principle of special legislation for the suppression of this pest ; 



2d. That a committee of ten be created, with Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief 

 of the Division of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, as 

 chairman, which shall carefully prepare such memoranda as they deem 

 best in relation to legislation dealing with the pest, and when so prepared 

 this matter shall be submitted. to the authorities of the several States con- 

 cerned for such action as the Legislatures thereof may choose to take. 



3d. That it is the sense of this Section that State inspection for the con- 

 trol and prevention of the dissemination of this pest upon nursery stock 

 is imperative. 



The chair appointed the following committee: L. O. Howard, W. B. 

 Alwood, W. G. Johnson, F. A. Sirrine, J. B. Smith, J. A. Lintner, F. M. 

 Webster, G. G. Groff, A. D. Hopkins and G. H. Powell. 



In the absence of the author, Dr. Howard read a paper by Mr. C. F. 

 Baker on " Notes from Auburn, Alabama." In brief, the author reviewed 

 the insects affecting the garden, farm crops, stored grain, and orchard 

 with miscellaneous notes. He said cotton and corn had been very free 

 from insect injury the present season, the greater part of the damage 

 being done by fungi. The scarity of the boll worm in corn was very 

 conspicuous. A small moth resembling the one becoming injurious to 



