Show RESEARCH COUNCil TO FIGHT PESTS Organized as Crop Protection Protection Protection tion Institute WASHINGTON D. D C. C Oct 23 With Wilh With the advice and assistance of the national national na na- na- na lIonal research council a cooperating I group f scientific investigators of in ins insect insect in- in I s sect ct pests and plant diseases together i with representatives of leading Indus Indus- Industrial I trial concerns engaged in the manufacture manufacture manufacture ture of chemicals and appliances used in n fighting fighting- these enemies of crops has been organized under the name of the crop protection institute This tue will undertake and support a series of thorough scientific studies of the crop pests pests' themselves and of the means for improving and standardizing the materials II and appliances used in fighting fighting fighting fight fight- ing them The board of trustees of the institute il is composed o of n nine scientific U df re men representing e leading scientific or organizations organizations or- or I interested in crop protection protection protection tion and our four our of the manufacturing and commercial inter inter- ests The temporary secretary is Mr Harrison E B Howe chairman of the di divIsion division division di- di vision of research extension of the na na- na- na research council The annual losses because of the attacks attacks attacks at- at at at- tacks on growing and stored crops by Insect pests and plant diseases are enormous despite all that has been done to lessen them A conservative tive estimate of the loss of bf wheat in the United States in a a single recent year because of the black stem stern rust is bushels and nd this pest is but butone butone oue one of many that attack the wheat ev every ry year What Is needed is a a. combination combination com com- and of on these pests T The new crop protection protection tion institute pests will help to bring this about It Is not intended that the institute institute institute tute will interfere iI with or duplicate existing efforts now being mr rne 1 i government bureaus state experiment stations stations' and other agencies agencies' to to to U UL crop op pests but that it will introduce n nm a amore amore m more general cooperation In the work and give special attention to filling Important im important important Im- Im gaps t that at now exist in it |