February, ’18] 
ENTOMOLOGISTS’ DISCUSSIONS 
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the planting better than tables or any other form of graphical or pic¬ 
torial representation known to the writer. 
7. A solid model of the conditions represented in the chart may be 
made either for the purpose of teaching the principles involved or when 
the amount of detail tends to become confusing. 
President R. A. Cooley: If there is no discussion, I will ask Mr. 
A. W. Morrill, Second Vice-President of the Association, to take the 
chair during the next number on the program, which is the discussion 
of the presidential address. 
Vice-President A. W. Morrill: The next number on the pro¬ 
gram, as announced, is the discussion of the presidential address. I 
should be glad to hear from any one present. 
Mr. H. A. Gossard: Mr. Chairman, I am quite sure that as a 
member of the Association I am indebted to the President for that very 
careful outline of the present situation. Doubtless every entomologist 
in the country has asked how he can best serve the country. We all 
ought to serve the country, and each one of us feels responsibility 
resting upon him in that service. 
I am impressed with the remark that research is far ahead of knowl¬ 
edge. There is a vast mass of entomological information of which the 
farmer does not avail himself, and it is hardly available to him under 
our present organization. 
The war is going to be very useful to us in developing an organiza¬ 
tion to carry this information to the people who need it most and for 
whom it was originally discovered. I find that our people are demand¬ 
ing entomological information. At the Ohio experiment station we 
have an editor of publications who keeps a tabulated record of the 
various papers, periodicals, etc., and makes use of our press bulletins 
and matter printed for general publication. We find that the press 
bulletins furnished by the Department of Entomology are more largely 
printed than those furnished by any other department. Our bulletins 
last summer were printed in seventy-seven different newspapers, were 
made use of by at least two press bureaus and other departmental sta¬ 
tions had an equal record. We interpreted that as an indication that 
the public wanted information in regard to the saving of crops that 
they had already planted and brought to the point where they seemed 
to be ready to yield harvest and yet were frequently being snatched 
away at just the time when the farmer thought he had dollars in his 
pocket and food in the bin. 
I am satisfied that we can work out extension programs that will be 
in demand and will be appreciated by our people. 
