JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 
FEBRUARY, 1918 
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The wastes of civilization, furnishing as they do breeding places 
for insects and affording numerous opportunities for infection, are a 
serious menace to human welfare. This was no problem in primitive 
days. The wandering tribes frequently changed camp sites and all 
was well. Such a course is impossible now and while modern plumbing 
has very generally solved or made possible the disposal of the more 
dangerous wastes from the home, comparatively little has been done 
for the adequate care of those from the stable. The suggestion of 
Mr. Cory in the January issue of the Emergency Entomological 
Service of the United States Department of Agriculture is of more 
than passing interest. The rapid drying of manure not only reduces 
weight and prevents insect breeding but renders such material less 
obnoxious, tends to its more general utilization as a fertilizer, and 
indirectly it means a marked lessening of the insect menace. Such a 
process or some modification may not be profitable, judged solely from 
immediate and tangible returns and yet pay large dividends if due 
allowance is made for the protection thereby secured from disease. 
The necessities of the army may result in working out a method which 
can be applied to city and village conditions. This is one of the 
practical problems of present day sanitation, and one which should be 
speedily solved. 
The prohibition of the importation of all nursery stock, except what 
may be imported by the Secretary of Agriculture for experimental and 
