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The problem of laying this information before the persons concerned 

 in a really effective fashion (that fashion which will produce effective 

 action) is not by any means easy, but it seems to the writer less difficult 

 than the other two. With lavrs sufficiently powerful and proper 

 organization of the people who are to be protected, the adequate sort 

 of action could be secured. 



Conclusions 



It is the writer's strong conviction that the most efficient protection 

 of the control official's territory will not come through increasing the 

 complexity of certification but rather through that cooperation of 

 control officials which will give the information sought without 

 increase in red tape. 



It is further the writer's belief that in its last anah^sis, the efficient 

 protection of the territory depends upon the more or less complete 

 examination of stock coming into it and that a very valuable pre- 

 requisite is advance information of the source, nature, extent, desti- 

 nation, probable date of arrival, and consignee of each of the various 

 shipments. 



It is also the writer's conviction that the prevention of the establish- 

 ment of new pests is far more effective than is the control of outbreaks 

 of insects already established, and that the time is at hand when a 

 more satisfactory reduction of the latter must be effected. 



[ Papers read hy title ] 

 NOTES ON THE ONION MAGGOT IN 1914 



By A. I. Bourne, A.B., Massachusetts Agricultural College 



In any treatment of the season's work against the onion maggot, 

 reference should be made to the general cHmatic conditions prevailing 

 in the spring of 1914, in so far as they had any bearing upon the experi- 

 ments undertaken. 



The early spring in Massachusetts and especially in the Connecticut 

 Valley was in many respects unusual. Follow^ing a winter in which 

 were several intervals of very severe cold, there was a long period of 

 cold, rainy weather which continued well through April and into May. 

 This handicapped the farmer to a considerable extent, for except in 

 especially favorable locations, the land was in no condition to be worked 

 until very late, and so planting was much delaj^ed. The experimental 

 plots could not be handled until fully three weeks later than in the 

 previous year, and at least two weeks later than in 1912. As a result, 

 at the time when normally the onion flies begin to make their appear- 

 ance in the field to deposit their eggs on young plants, these plants were 



