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zation that we as entomologists can render service of a very noteworthy 
nature. This association is composed of American patriots who put 
America first, their own beloved state next, and harmonize their own 
personal welfare with the welfare of their fellow citizens. These patri¬ 
ots will stand up boldly for the suppression of special privilege to any 
class, whether it be capital, or labor, producer, or non-producer; and 
will stand out just as firmly against discrimination aimed at any class. 
By cooperation they will solve their labor problems; will improve the 
grades and marketing condition of their products; open up and improve 
their markets; obtain fair rates of transportation and storage; prepare 
such legislation as will establish honesty in the industry and insure 
producer, handler, and consumer a fair deal; will create a greater 
demand and more fields of usefulness for their product; and will 
engage experts to study the special problems of their crops. 
In the old-style agriculture every producer was a unit by himself, 
and he had to deal with men of business acumen who were better 
organized than himself. Now, when he is properly organized he has 
business agents who attend to the packing, marketing, transporting 
and sale of his products, and he becomes a member of a group dealing 
in a business way with other organized groups of people. 
We are still in the preliminary stages of organized agriculture. 
The cotton growers of the South, for instance, have just completed their 
business organization, but so far they have as objectives, principally, 
those problems which point to improvement of marketing conditions. 
Later we can expect them to expand their ideals, until they themselves 
will employ expert advice in solving some of the tremendous problems 
of production which face them. As an example of associations which 
recognize the importance of technical advice, we may quote the 
Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, which has a fully equipped 
experiment station, and sends high priced experts to all parts, of the 
world in quest of information, or parasites, or improved varieties. 
Here on the Pacific Coast we probably have more organizations, and 
more efficient ones at that, than anywhere else in the world at present. 
The very fact that growers are organizing is a recognition of the 
fact that there is a community of interests, although it does not mean 
that the growers recognize how extensive is their community of inter¬ 
ests, nor how many people are involved in these interests. Let us take 
a lesson from the newly formed American Cotton Association. This 
association recognizes a community of interest between growers, 
ginners, oil mill men, spinners, bankers and merchants, and all of the 
many special interests which handle cotton, and its piembership takes 
care of these various interests. Such a breadth of vision is refreshing, 
for it holds promise of a cooperative uplift movement for a vast section 
