As a representative of the chemical industry, this subject is a rather difficult one to discuss. When one stops a moment to think about the role of the university in herbicidal testing, immediately he realizes that this probably never has been defined and it appears for the most part the administration and research personnel of each university follow the road that is the best of their liking. Far too often, they do not stop and ask themselves whether they really are taking the proper route.

In discussing this topic, one can take the approach that all universities, and some are in this category, are doing an excellent job and compliment everyone that an adequate job is being done. Or one can conclude that the universities should not be doing field evaluations (and please understand this is in the minds of a few university administrators) or the answers to the field problems can be solved in the laboratories; or finally, one can conclude that the universities are not doing a proper job and that considerable improvement must take place. Perhaps I will make some new enemies today (although the Chairman, Dr. Ries, indicated I could take any approach I preferred), but I am of the opinion that our university and experiment station system primarily is not doing a proper job in testing herbicides and that they must take a more active role in the future than they have in the past.