agricultural press, a distributer of accurate rather than false informa- 

 tion. I have no scheme of my own to propose, but is not this a matter 

 worthy of some attention by our association ''i A curious effect of 

 the wide circulation of some agricultural journals is that sometimes the 

 entomologist of a neighboring or even a far-oft' State is better known 

 than the home worker, and questions from Illinois, Nebraska, or Ohio 

 may come to Xew York for solution. So an Associated Press report 

 to the newspapers sometimes brings letters from almost every State in 

 the Union on subjects very much more readily answered by the station 

 entomologists of the respective States, as I am always careful to say 

 when T get communications of that description. Occasionally an erring 

 Jerseyman gets away from me, I know, especially to Washington ; but 1 

 get my revenge when the authorities in charge of certain j^arks in that 

 city write to me for methods of dealing with shade-tree insects, appar- 

 ently in blissful ignorance that anything has been published in their 

 own city especially adapted to their needs. 



A subject of considerable interest allied to that just mentioned is, 

 How can we keep track of everything on economic entomology that 

 is published nowadays? The bulletins and reports reach us in due 

 time in most cases, but I am not so sure of even that for myself. I 

 invariably send my bulletins and reports to all the members of this 

 association directly from my own office, and I know that a few are sent 

 to me in the same way, but the practice is by no means universal; and, 

 though I believe some action was taken at a i^revious meeting, yet I 

 would urge that it be made one of the active obligations of membership 

 in this association that at least all official bulletins and reports be sent 

 to every fellow-member. Ev^en if by this means a duplication occurs, I 

 am never averse to doubling up on a good thing, and, indeed, want two 

 copies whenever I can get them. The Experiment Station Record, 

 published by the United States Department of Agriculture at Wash- 

 ington, keeps us tolerably well informed of what is issued from the 

 experiment stations, and it is easy to get track of a missing bulletin or 

 report; but the numerous articles published in agricultural journals 

 and newspapers are a more serious matter, and I confess my entire ina- 

 bility to keep up with them. I am working absolutely without assist- 

 ance, except a share in a stenographer and typewriter, who is kept busy 

 constantly in her own si)ecial branch, and it is simi)ly impossible for 

 me to find time to look over even all the papers that come to the station, 

 yet I put in on an average twelve hours a day seven days in the week, 

 which is all, in my opinion, that {;an be reasonably asked. As a con- 

 sequence, I am constantly learning of notes published here, there, and 

 everywhere long after they have appeared, and sometinuvs after I have 

 myself published matter upon the subject. 1 have even been severely 

 criticised by one of my fellow-members, who questioned my results iu 

 a farm paper, and have remained in blissful ignorance of my otlending 

 until long afterwards. To be sure, it didn't bother me any, but I always 



