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Mr. Gillette felt it a duty to test an insecticide whenever he 
believed that it was lable to do injury to the people of his own State. 
Mr. Burgess called attention to the fact that we often knew, before 
testing, that a remedy would be a failure, and yet, in order to satisfy 
the people and have them follow our recommendations, it was neces- 
sary to make an actual test. For instance, there had been introduced 
a panacea for pear bight and peach yellows, which was to be used by 
washing the outside of the trees. Although, of course, this could not 
possibly be efficient, it was necessary actually to test it. 
Mr. Fernald believed that the testing of proprietary insecticides 
was a matter for cooperation. Each station can not analyze all of 
them, yet the people of the country have a meght to know of the 
existence of good preparations. He believed that in each of the main 
divisions of the country one station might assume this testing for a | 
certain period, others taking it up afterwards in rotation. Mr. | 
Phillips felt that this should be done. In Virginia it appeared to be 
necessary to give this information to the people to protect them from | 
fraud, but it was impossible to test everything. Mr. Quaintance | 
called attention to the fact that the Association of Official Agricul- | 
tural Chemists has such a system of cooperative tests. Mr. Slinger- | 
land believed that even after these tests were made many people 
would not believe in them. They want to find out by their own | 
experience what the truth is. Mr. Surface dissented from this view 
to some extent. beheving that part of the people at least do accept | 
our reports. Mr. Smith said that he received many advertisements of 
curculio remedies accompanied by the question, ** Do you know anv- 
thing of this?” 
Mr. Fernald moved that a committee of three be appointed to con- | 
sider the question of cooperation in the testing of insecticides and | 
proprietary preparations, to report at the next annual meeting. The | 
motion was carried, and the chair appointed as such committee 
Messrs. H. T. Fernald, H. A. Surface, and A. T. Burgess. 
The following paper was read: 
THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE PREDATORY INSECTS INTRO- 
DUCED INTO NEW JERSEY. 
By JOHN B. SmitH, New Brunswick, N. J. 
Ever since the introduction of the San Jose or pernicious scale 
into New Jersey, the question of securing the assistance of predatory 
insects to exterminate or at least control it has been more or less 
continuously before the farmers and fruit growers, and of necessity 
befere the entomologist as well. The subject is an old one. It has 
been before various meetings of farmers, fruit growers, and entomolo- 
gists, and it has been discussed from all sides. That a measure of 
