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gates Shipping Board Emergericy Fleet Corporation shall be considered a Govern- 
nt establishment for the purpose of this section: PROVIDED FURTHER, That 
nis section shall not be construed to repeal section five of the act of June 
2, 1906, which prohibits the transfer of employees from one department to 
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HESSIAN-FLY CONFERENCE. 
A conference was held January 5, 1918, at Washington, D. C., for the 
mrpose of discussing the Hessian fly situation in relation to present agro- 
mic practice. The following persons were in attendance: ; 
UREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 
Doctor L, 0. Howard. C. R. Ball. 
W. R. Walton. 
J. Je Davis. M. A. Carleton. 
CG. M. Packard, C. V. Piper. 
A. ¥. Satterthwait. 
Q. N. Ainslie. C. 8. Scofield. 
qa. G. Ainslie. 
J C. W. Creel. C. BE. Leighty. 
_ J. R. Horton. 
; “de 8. Wade, 
W. qs Phillips. 
D. J. Caffrey. 
As a result of this conference it was decided to issue a questionaire, 
addressed to Extension Directors of several winter wheat producing States, for 
the purpose of securing information upon which to base action with a view to 
securing the plowing under of stubble immediately after harvest wherever this 
practice can be followed without financial loss to the farmer. 
At the close of the general conference, the Hessian fly men met to dis- 
cuss Hessian fly plans for the coming year. At the end of this meeting a com- 
mittee composed of Messrs. J. J. Davis, W. R. McConnell, and J, R. Horton, was 
@ppointed to prepare an outline of the methods to be used in the Hessian fly 
investigations for the coming year in order that uniformity along certain im- 
‘portant lines might be secured. This report stated briefly is as follows: 
METHODS OF MAKING COUNTS. In the experimental plots, records should 
be secured by secured by examining not less than five linear yards of drill 
row, each yard to be taken at random from a different section of the plot and 
every plant in the selected yard to be exemined, Record should be made of 
the total number of plants examined, the number infested, the stage of deve-~ 
lopment, and any other desirable data, as well as @ record of the width of 
drill rows in order that the number of plants and insects per acre can be cal- 
culated, This method was selected in preference to the picking method because, 
from the results obtained by Flint and Davis, it seemed to give practically 
equally satisfactory results, and the former method was more adaptable for 
making counts in both fall and spring, as well as in stubble, making it poss- 
ible to have results of al1 counts comparable and to correlate results with 
