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expect to scout for at least six or eight more before the next season 
opens. The scouting problem is a difficult one. The most discourag¬ 
ing thing about the efforts of the Department of Agriculture in the 
way of extension work, is that it is not providing apparently for this 
scouting work. Some of the men are trying to handle it under the 
head of survey work, but I am told that no provision had been made 
for scouting work and that if any is done it would have to be placed 
under the head of surveying. That is an unfortunate thing. 
President R. A. Cooley: I might mention one or two matters in 
my own experience. We are all familiar with the fact that many 
county agents have had more or less entomological training and that 
they have in many cases come from widely separated states. It is a 
case of having a little knowledge in some instances, and there is a 
tendency, we have noticed, for them to make recommendations 
which might be widely at variance with recommendations which the 
home institution would make. We are, therefore, undertaking to 
furnish all county agents with a sheet dealing with an individual 
pest, briefly outlining the life-history, the recommendations that the 
state has adopted or we believe should adopt. Another point is men¬ 
tioning at the bottom of the page a few important bulletins of the 
home state or of another state, the purpose of this being to make the 
work generally more effective and specifically to bring about uniform¬ 
ity in the state. These sheets may be recalled from time to time and 
new ones substituted as additional information is available. 
We are hoping to make the work somewhat more effective by this 
method. 
We are grateful to the Horticultural Section for allowing this in¬ 
fringement upon their time and I will now turn the meeting over to 
them. 
Adjournment. 
The Section of Horticultural Inspection 
The sixteenth annual meeting of the Section on Horticultural 
Inspection was held in the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh, Pa., 
January 1, 1918, at 1.30 p. m. and 8.00 p. m. 
The sessions were called to order by Prof. G. M. Bentley, Knox¬ 
ville, Tenn., Chairman; with Prof. J. G. Sanders, Harrisburg, Pa., 
Secretary. The Federal Horticultural Board and committees of the 
American Association of Nurserymen, and of the Society of American 
Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists were invited to attend the 
sessions to discuss and confer on the proposed bill prohibiting the 
importation of nursery stock from foreign countries. One member of 
