THE MONTHLY BUIiLETIN. 471 



Our publication on insects, injurious and beneficial, has been greatly 

 appreciated. Believing that this would be the case we provided a very 

 large edition. In a few months this was exhausted, and hundreds of 

 requests have been filed to await the second edition now in the press. 

 We were very pleased at the reception of the first edition, even experts 

 thought it the best ever published. I assure you the second edition now 

 in the press will be still better. 



I need not speak of The Monthly Bulletin. Letters from every section 

 of the state convince us that it speaks for itself. 



Mr. Essig, the author of the insect bulletin and the first editor of 

 The Monthly Bulletin, is no longer connected with the Commission. 

 We could not have consented to the loss of so valuable a man except 

 that we are assured that he will continue in the same line of work in 

 our great University which he has so admirably carried on in the Com- 

 mission. 



A Bureau of Information. 



Very numerous letters calling for information along our line of work, 

 sometimes fifty a day, come to the Commission. This is why we sought 

 such men as Messrs. Essig, Fawcett, Weldon and Smith. I wished the 

 best, men who could speak at once with authority, that we might give 

 prompt and immediate response to each inquiry. With our able corps 

 of assistants this is now possible. 



You will be interested in knowing that whereas there were but eleven 

 employees in the Commission in October. 1911. the date of my appoint- 

 ment as Commissioner, there were twenty-two in October, 1914, yet our 

 appropriation has not increased one cent. We have added to Governor 

 Johnson's rule in making appointments efficiency and no politics his 

 third insistence — greatest economy consistent with efficient service. 



You all know how we have favored at every convention action that 

 would promote organization, cooperation and better means of market- 

 ing. We must pound away with telling blows until we have such 

 organizations as the Citrus, Almond and Walnut Exchanges and the 

 Citrus Protective League back of every agricultural interest of the 

 state. 



Statistics. 



The statistical work now in charge of Chief Deputy Commissioner, 

 George P. Weldon, is rapidly growing in accuracy and popularity. 

 Statistics unless accurate are valueless, but if accurate they are all 

 important. With our hundreds of trained men daily in the field we 

 have a rare and unique opportunity to secure reliable data in this 

 direction. I believe that our people wall insist upon legislation that 

 will continue this phase of our work and make such legislation cover 

 all our agricultural products. 



Cooperative Effort. 



There is every reason why the State Commission of Horticulture, the 

 county horticviltural commissioners, the State University and the 

 United States Department of Agriculture should work together in 

 fullest accord. I am happy to state that the county horticultural com- 

 missioners are now unanimously cooperating with the State Commis- 



