American Decades

Report

By: John S. Houser

Date: July–August 1922

Source: Houser, John S. "The Airplane in Catalpa Sphinx Control." Monthly Bulletin [of the] Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, July–August 1922, 132–133.

About the Author: John Samuel Houser (1881–1947) was born on a farm near Oxford, Kansas, and received an M.S. in entomology from Cornell University in 1911. He joined the staff of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station in Wooster as assistant entomologist in 1903. In 1926, he became head of the department, a position he held until his death in 1947. He was a charter member of the Entomological Society of America, and in 1931 served as president of the American Association of Economic Entomologists.

Introduction

In the eighteenth century, many prominent landowners wanted to infuse farming with science. Thomas Jefferson conducted his own...