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WAR GARDEN LECTURES, 1918 
Free public lectures in the auditorium of the laboratory build- 
ing were inaugurated on Wednesday, March 6, when the first of 
a course of three lectures on ‘ The Small Vegetable Garden” was 
given by Mr. Montague Free, Head Gardener. The titles and 
dates of these lectures were as follows: 
1. Getting Ready: Planning, preparation of the soil. Wed- 
nesday, March 6; Sunday, March Io. 
2, Keeping Busy; Seeds, planting, cultivation, thinning, insects. 
Wednesday, March 13; Sunday, March 17. 
3. The Reward: Harvesting, storing for winter use. Wednes- 
day, March 20; Sunday, March 24. 
Lectures were continued from April 3 to May 26 as follows: 
April 3 and 7. Farming for Women. Miss Sophia de M. 
_ Carey, official lecturer for the British government. Miss Eliza- 
beth Cleveland and Mrs. Florence Young, Bedford Farmerettes 
and members of the Woman’s Land Army of America. 
April 14. The Back Yard Vegetable Garden, Miss Jean A. 
Cross, Assistant Curator of Elementary Instruction. 
April 21t. Forest Products and the War (Arbor Day Lecture). 
Prof. Samuel J. Record, School of Forestry, Yale University. 
April 28. Diseases of Garden Crops and How to Control 
Them. Dr. Edgar W. Olive, Curator of Public Instruction. 
May 5. Plant Breeding and Increased Food Production. Dr. 
Orland E. White, Curator of Plant Breeding. 
May 12. Bacteriology and the War. Dr. Ira S. Wile, former 
member of the Board of Education, New York City. 
May 19. Garden Insects—Good and Bad. Dr. E. P. Felt, 
State Entomologist of New York. 
May 26. Cultivation of Drug Plants. Dr. W. W. Stockber- 
ger, in charge of drug and poisonous plant investigations, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. 

SCIENCE IN PEACE AND WAR 
“Tt required the cataclysm of the Great War to bring men to 
realize fully the part which applied science is playing and, more 
