JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



OCTOBER, 1915 



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The California meeting shows that the term American has a vital 

 meaning in the name of the Association and the action of the Pacific 

 Slope Association of Economic Entomologists indicates a willingness 

 on the part of the members of that organization to make the adjective 

 under discussion thoroughly characteristic. It is by all means better 

 to have one strong association providing adequate representation and 

 opportunity for the varied interests and it is hoped that the prelimi- 

 nary action of last summer may come to a successful fruition at the 

 next annual meeting. Many problems are being studied under vary- 

 ing conditions found in different parts of the country and it is most 

 desirable that the strongest association of practical entomologists 

 should be comprehensively American in its membership, and recog- 

 nize, as it does in its foreign members, the great value of the work 

 done in other countries. 



The report of the special summer meeting indicates an interesting 

 and profitable gathering. It is regrettable that not more of the east- 

 ern men could attend and secure for themselves every benefit to be 

 derived from national sessions held in regions presenting not only 

 peculiar but important entomological problems. There is much 

 for the eastern man to learn from his colleagues of the West. Cali- 

 fornia has led the way with county entomologists. It was within her 

 boundaries that the utility of hydrocyanic acid gas for the fumigation 

 of fruit trees was demonstrated, that the lime, salt and sulphur wash 

 (primarily a sheep dip) was first applied to fruit trees and there also 

 occurred a most striking demonstration of how insects may be used 

 to control insects and the necessity of one insect to the production of 

 an important fruit. These bright pages of entomological history 



