Along these various lines will the economic entomologist find oppor- 
tunity for valuable work in the future. At the present rate of prog- 
ress the next two or three decades must witness many important 
ciscoveries and improvements, and it may be safely predicted that the 
science will not fail to respond to the demands made upon it with the 
increasing material development of our people. 
After the conclusion of the president’s address the report of the 
secretary-treasurer was read and referred to an auditing committee 
consisting of Messrs. Fletcher and Sanderson. On motion, an assess- 
ment of 25 cents was levied on all members present at the meeting. _ 
On motion of Mr. Burgess the following committees were ap- 
pointed : 
Nominations: Messrs. Slingerland, Osborn, and Phillips. 
Membership: Messrs. Smith, Chambliss, and Titus. 
Resolutions: Messrs. Felt, Burgess, and Washburn. 
Programme: Messrs. Summers, Marlatt, and Skinner. 
The following paper was presented : 
EXPERIMENTS WITH LIME-SULPHUR WASHES. 
By Hh. PP. Kerr, Aloany, N.Y: 
Experiments with lime-sulphur washes were continued last season 
largely for the purpose of testing their efficiency and also to gain an 
idea as to the relative merits of different methods of preparation and 
the best quantities to use. Several formule, which gave good results 
last year (1903), were further tested the past season (1904), the 
principal ones being 25 pounds of lime and 20 pounds of sulphur to 
50 gallons of water; 25 pounds of lime to 12 pounds of sulphur, and 
30 pounds of lime to 15 pounds of sulphur, respectively, to 50 gallons. 
All of the washes were prepared as in previous years, the hme being 
slaked in a few gallons of hot water in a kettle over a fire, the sulphur 
added, the whole stirred, and the boiling continued actively from half 
an hour to an hour and a half. Our observations failed to show that 
the long boiling gave a more effective wash than the one produced by 
the quicker method. Our experiments confirmed previous conclu- 
sions that a little more lime than sulphur was an advantage, and, after 
consultation and comparison of data with Prof. P. J. Parrott, of the 
Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, N. Y., we both decided 
to recommend 20 pounds of lime and 15 pounds of sulphur, with at 
Jeast thirty minutes active boiling, the use of salt being optional. A 
wash wherein a large amount of lime is used for the purpose of gen- 
erating heat, so that boiling is not necessary, can be made as recom- 
