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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
I shall end with another thought 
along this same line. It has occurred 
to me that there should be a short 
course in the control of citrus pests and 
diseases given at the University. It 
might read as follows: 
“A Twelve Weeks’ Course on the 
Control of Citrus Insect Pests and 
Diseases.” It should include: 
1. A study of insect pests. 
2. A study of plant diseases. 
3. Control of insects by means of 
their natural enemies, fungi and in¬ 
sects. 
4. Methods and practical experi¬ 
ence in the application of insecticides, 
including fumigation and fungicides. 
5. The chemistry and mixing of spray¬ 
ing solutions. 
6. The study of a plant’s life. 
Other subjects might be suggested 
as the course is worked out. Such 
a course should be open to all who 
chose to attend. It should be more or 
less comparable to the short course in 
agriculture given at the University 
during the past two years. Each 
county should see to it that it had at 
least one representative at this course 
each year. Better still, each locality, 
or center of citrus culture, or center 
for the growing of other crops subject 
to the attack of insects and diseases, 
should arrange to have several men, 
preferably young men, to attend the 
course. After a few years, the result 
would be that each locality would have 
men with sufficient technical knowl¬ 
edge to be able to supervise the con¬ 
trol of insect pests and diseases intelli¬ 
gently. Such is the desideratum, tech¬ 
nical supervision, not the shotgun 
method. It is quite out of the question 
that every grower should post himself 
sufficiently along such technical lines, 
hence there should be the practical 
specialist. Just as there are courses in 
animal husbandry, poultry raising, 
dairying, general agriculture, etc., in 
many of our colleges and universities, 
why should the University of Florida 
not give a course in citrus culture and 
other special crops, especially in what 
pertains to the control of insect pests 
and diseases? In the above outline I 
have several times indicated where the 
course might be broadened to cover 
the control of insects and diseases of 
other crops besides citrus. The period 
of time that the course should occupy 
would determine the desirability of 
broadening its scope or limiting it. 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. Skinner: That last suggestion Mr. 
Berger makes about a short course in in¬ 
sect control at the University is one of 
the best suggestions I ever heard in this 
society. No matter how intelligent a man 
may be, he will find it hard to get any 
line on these insects, and know them when 
he sees them, and how to go to work to 
control them. I would send a man, or 
two men, there, if I could not go myself. 
I consider it a very valuable suggestion, 
and I hope the society will see fit to take 
some action. 
Mr. Yothers: I talked this over with 
Dr. Berger when he mentioned it at 
Gainesville, and told him the greatest hin¬ 
drance to our work is the fact that no- 
