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Mr. J. L. King: This study has only been conducted since the first 
of May. I have found larvse hibernating in the field. I am studying 
them under various conditions and I ha,ve also planted infested grain, 
through which there seems to be some possibility that they might be 
carried into the soil. At first I didn’t think it was at all possible, but 
I was greatly surprised on planting infested grain to have a few moths 
work their way up through the soil and they could fly away. Whether 
larvae can go through the winter, I am unable to state as yet. 
Mr. G. A. Dean: For at least ten years the grain moth has been 
one of the most serious pests we have had in Kansas in several different 
grains. It was first very serious in wheat, laying its eggs in the chaff 
and also in the stem. Now they are not causing much trouble to the 
wheat because the farmers thresh as soon as they can after harvesting; 
but it has gone into the chaff. The grain moth in Kansas is the most 
serious pest we have in those seeds, when stored. Our farmers must 
fumigate these seeds with carbon bisulfid before they are sowed. If 
they don’t they will lose from 50 to 75 per cent of them. Our seed 
men had that sad experience with the angoumois moth. 
President R. A. Cooley: The meeting will now stand adjourned. 
Adjournment. 
Morning Session, Tuesday, January 1,1918,10.00 a. m. 
President R. A. Cooley: The first paper on the program is by 
E. P. Felt on “Insects and Camp Sanitation.” 
INSECTS AND CAMP SANITATION 
By E. P. Felt, State Entomologist of New York 
The battlefields of Europe are now the assembly grounds for the hu¬ 
man race. Some of almost all nationalities and huge numbers of a few 
have met in a struggle of world-wide significance. They have brought 
with them their blood parasites and infections and all too frequently 
carriers of disease. We know that lice and typhus, flies and cholera, 
typhoid and dysentery, fleas and bubonic plague, mosquitoes and 
malaria, are to be found among the troops of the battle-scarred regions. 
Here is a biological complex or association unparalleled in the history 
of the world and the complexity is still increasing. The dispersion at 
Babel is being followed by the assembly at Armageddon. Other na¬ 
tions are entering the conflict and at present many thousands and soon 
millions of American citizens may be directly involved in this gigantic 
struggle. We are more deeply concerned with these last, though it 
should not be forgotten that our future is closely linked with that of our 
