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This committee issued a circular letter to manufacturers which met 
with a very general and cordial response from them. Nearly every 
one fully indorsed the ideas set forth by the committee, and most of the 
prominent parties agreed to carry out the committee’s suggestions so 
far as practicable with the state of their business. By the time stand- 
ard styles of fittings could be circulated among the makers of spray 
machinery the season of 791 was so far advanced that we could not 
hope to affect much change during the current year. However, now 
that interest and sympathy with this effort have been awakened, we 
believe that it is possible through united effort to secure all we ask in 
this line. While we are all aware that the members of this Association 
are in large part station entomologists, it is also true that some very 
prominent members are not connected with station work; hence my _ 
reasons for bringing this subject before you for discussion. To any 
one who has had actual experience in field work the importance of bet- 
ter, and, I will say, uniformly standard sizes of fittings, can not be 
doubted, and to aid in securing this desideratum is the chief purpose of 
my paper. 
IT shall at an early date publish an illustrated circular dealing with 
the question of styles and sizes of fittings, which will give detailed 
information, both for the use of manufacturers and the special workers. 
On motion of Mr. Smith, seconded by Mr. Lintner, it was— 
Resolved, That the Association of Economic Entomologists heartily indorses the 
work of the committee from the Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 
Stations, appointed for the purpose of consulting the manufacturers of spray ma- 
chinery, with the end in view of securing the adoption of standard sizes of connections 
and attachments on such machinery. 
Further, the Association of Economic Entomologists urges upon the manufacturers 
of this machinery the importance of acceding to the request of this committee. The 
association requests the committee to publish its recommendations, with drawings 
and descriptions, for the information of mauufacturers and special workers, and to 
include in this publication a iist of all manufacturers who have agreed to conform 
to the standard sizes. : 
Mr. Kellicott stated that in his opinion firms which will not comply 
with the request to manufacture standard fittings should be requested 
to furnish an adapter to their machines which will enable their use 
with the standard fittings. 
Mr. Southwick presented the following: 
ENTOMOLOGICAL WORK IN CENTRAL PAPE. 
By E. B. SouTHwick, New York, N. Y. 
[ Author’s abstract. | 
The work of the entomologists of the department of public parks is 
in-the care of trees, shrubs, and plants, under the directions issued by 
the president of the board of commissioners. 
The work of removing the egg masses of Orgyia leucostigma was the 
