JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 
DECEMBER, 1918 
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The readjustments of peace are facing the country. The urgent 
need for increased production must continue for some time and in this, 
as during the last two seasons, the practical entomologist must con¬ 
tinue to play an important part. The same need for a close watch 
upon insect development in the field with the special purpose of antici¬ 
pating and preventing serious injury must continue. The call for 
discrimination between the serious pest and the comparatively trivial 
is hardly less urgent, and here, as well as in many other fields, the ap¬ 
plied entomologist will find much that can not be done by others. It is 
real service to the country. It is one of the best opportunities to 
demonstrate the practical value of economic entomology. 
The war has stimulated investigations into the bionomics of various 
camp pests. There have been great additions to our knowledge of these 
pernicious forms and methods have been developed which will prove of 
great service in controlling insects under field conditions. Many of 
these investigations have not been completed and it is important that 
they be brought to a successful conclusion as far as possible, since 
knowledge of this character is not only of great value in time of con¬ 
flict but it is essential to the successful handling of problems where 
sanitary ideals are still primitive. We need every advantage bestowed 
by a knowledge of disease carrying insects if we would live up to our 
opportunities. 
The end of the war shifts the emphasis to be placed upon insects 
and their part in carrying disease, though it is none the less important. 
The battlefield and camp problems are less urgent. Conditions in the 
