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Besides answering innumerable requests for garden informa- 
tion received by telephone and by personal calls at the Garden 
office, the Garden prepared five Leaflets on the following sub- 
jects: (Figures in parentheses indicate the number of copies 
issued, the regular issue being about 1,000) The small vegetable 
garden (3,500), Some insect pests (3,000), The storage of vege- 
tables (1,500), and The one-period cold-pack method of canning 
(3,000), Fall treatment of land for garden crops (3,000). 
The figures just given are specially significant, for the Leaflets 
were not distributed broadcast, but only to those who asked for 
them. It is very easy to roll up much larger (in fact, almost 
unlimited) figures as to free distribution of pamphlets and other 
printed matter, but when they are handed out indiscriminately, 
unasked, or placed in trolley cars and other public places, many 
are promptly thrown away, often without even being read. This 
happened time and again at various meetings held last spring 
in Brooklyn and other boroughs. We feel that every one of the 
Garden Leaflets was handed to a person who wished the informa- 
tion it contained. The Leaflets are financed from private funds, 
and contributions would be gratefully received for their con- 
tinuance. 
CG SG 
APREP =O TEXAS <CO INVESTIGATE. COTTON RUST 
On July 23, 1917, I was asked by Dr. W. A. Orton, patholo- 
gist in charge of cotton, truck and forage crop disease investiga- 
tions, to undertake for the U. S. Department of Agriculture an 
investigation of a sudden outbreak of cotton rust in southern 
Texas. This disease was supposed to have originated across 
the Mexican border and it was feared that if not checked it might 
sweep across the whole southern cotton belt, doing a great deal 
of damage. : 
The Federal Horticultural Board, of which Dr. Orton is a 
member, was much concerned over this new menace to the cotton 
industry, especially in view of the fact that the Board has just 
been considering the establishment of a cotton-free zone along 
insect pest, the pink boll-worm, which is now established in 
the Rio Grande valley, looking to the exclusion of a serious 
