February, ’20] 
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could do their own scouting. I think it would help if we knew where 
this broom corn was distributed. 
Mr. C. L. Marlatt: Mr. Harrison E. Smith, in Mr. Walton’s 
service, has had charge of the investigation of the distribution of this 
broom corn. Two shipments were traced as far west as Iowa. We do 
not know where the great bulk of the shipments went except that they 
were variously distributed in the Mississippi Valley. We knew of 
some points where this broom corn was used. It is a matter of con¬ 
siderable time to find these records buried in various business houses. 
In the case of the pink bollworm, we have been two or three years 
tracing the distribution of the Mexican cotton that entered in 1916. 
It takes time to do such work. 
Mr. J. G. Needham: Mr. President, it seems to me that our want of 
agreement over the policy of the Bureau of Entomology with respect 
to the European corn borer grows not so much out of any difficulty of 
understanding that policy (for it is clear enough), as it does out of the 
fact that that policy seems not to cover one point about which a good 
many of us are a bit apprehensive. It seems to omit all thought of 
checking the invasion at its front. Scouting and all the rest are well 
enough—none of us wish to curtail these activities, but should we 
be content with scouting and study while the invader is extending 
its range? 
The corn borer may ultimately prove to be a blessing in disguise, like 
the San Jose scale and the boll weevil and the other imported pests 
with which it has been compared here today. But it may, like these 
also, for a time seem more like a devastating fire, able to sweep an 
important industry before it over a considerable area of our country. 
Shall we let the fire alone, taking chances in its doing little harm? That 
is the question. If not, it would seem that the place to fight it is where 
it is advancing farthest and threatening most harm for the future. 
Owing to the sudden discontinuance of the electric current, the session 
adjourned in the dark. 
Report of the Section on Apiculture 
Wednesday Evening, December 31, 1919, 8.20 p. m. 
The meeting was called to order by Chairman W. E. Britton, who 
presented an address entitled, “Some Phases of Beekeeping in Con¬ 
necticut.” 
SOME PHASES OF BEEKEEPING IN CONNECTICUT 
By W. E. Britton, State Entomologist, New Haven, Conn. 
The state which I represent, Connecticut, is a small state, having 
an area of 5,004 square miles, and a population in 1910 of 1,114,756. 
