February,’18] COOLEY: ENTOMOLOGY SERVING THE NATION 
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gion or to carry out other provisions of the Food Production Act in 
other lines of agricultural work can, in most cases, be definitely planned 
in advance but insect outbreaks are often sporadic and always regional 
and the Bureau of Entomology reserves the right to detail the special¬ 
ist to another state if a serious outbreak makes this necessary. It will 
strengthen the work in the various states if when the emergency has 
passed, the Bureau’s specialist be returned to his original station. 
Rather definite plans are, of course, needed on the part of the states 
in order that the fullest use of the Bureau’s specialists may be made. 
A part of the work of the year can in most cases be laid out in ad¬ 
vance and clearly it is desirable that any state, for the purposes of 
extension work to be done either in cooperation with the Bureau of 
Entomology or independently, should have definite information re¬ 
garding the relative importance of the various crops grown in the state 
and regarding also the relative amounts of damage done by the 
different pests. Pest survey work is of the greatest importance in 
this connection. Only with such definite information before the 
entomologist, can the most useful work be undertaken. 
The emergency extension work carried on by the Bureau of Ento¬ 
mology makes it more important than ever that each state should 
have its own extension entomologist. Mr. J. A. Hyslop, who has been 
charged with the direction of the extension office of the Bureau of 
Entomology, emphasizes this point in a recent letter in which he 
suggested that an extension entomologist should be appointed in every 
state, and that he should be the project leader in all cooperative ento¬ 
mological extension projects in that state. The great danger at the 
present time appears to be that the state will in many cases be con¬ 
tent to stop with the securing of one of the Bureau’s specialists. 
The federal specialist can be much more effective if he works in coop¬ 
eration with the local man who is following a comprehensive plan for 
meeting the state’s needs. 
From every standpoint it is very desirable that the extension ento¬ 
mologist should be a member of the entomology department of the 
institution and that the head of the department have the closest rela¬ 
tionship with the extension director in planning the extension work 
in entomology. The department can do much for the extension 
entomologist and for the state through him, and he in turn can do 
much for the department by keeping it in touch with the needs of the 
state. Teaching, research and extension may all be benefited by 
being coordinated through one head. However, some states have 
already organized with the extension entomologist independent of the 
department of entomology in the institution, and in one state at least 
the only connection which the entomology department has with the 
