Publications. xiii 



Ent. 94. Syrphidae of Maine — Second Report. By C. L. Metcalf. Bui. 



263, Me. Agr. Exp. Station. 

 Ent. 95. The Aphid of Choke Cherry and Grain, Aphis pseudoavenae. 



By Edith M. Patch. Bui. 267, Me. Agr. Exp. Station. 

 Ent. 96. The Currant Fruit Fly. By Henry H. P. Severin. Bui. 264, 



Me. Agr. Exp. Station. 



The Station and the War. 



In April at the time of the annual meeting of the Station 

 Council the work of the Station for the preceding year was 

 reviewed. This as usual covered work completed during the 

 year, published and unpublished, work begun that would natural- 

 ly be continued and plans for new lines of investigation. The 

 v/hole plan along usual lines with some advances was adopted. 

 The declaration of war followed quite shortly after this meet- 

 ing. But for the few first weeks the work of the Station went 

 on uninterruptedly. Plantings were made at both farms as 

 usual and in accord with the plans approved by the Council. 

 The usual amount of hatching at the poultry plant proceeded 

 normally. The regular lines of investigation were entered upon. 

 The usual special summer staff in entomology came to the Sta- 

 tion early in June. 



The National Academy of Sciences had in the preceeding 

 fall appointed a committee on Agriculture with special view to 

 war needs of which Doctor Raymond Pearl, Biologist of the 

 Station, was the chairman. A meeting of this committee was 

 held in Washington in May. President Wilson had previously 

 asked Mr. Herbert Hoover, who had charge of the feeding of 

 the Belgians under the Belgian Relief, to come to the United 

 States to take charge of the food supply in America. Although 

 legislation was still pending the administration had a pretty 

 well thought out plan of action. At that time and later develop- 

 ments confirmed and strengthened this judgment, the most 

 important branch of food service was thought to lie along statis- 

 tical lines such as the amount of food in each country of ths 

 world,' their normal production, their war production, their nor- 

 mal needs, their war needs and the same statistical information 

 regarding the production, consumption, and possible exportation 

 surplus* of the United States. Mr. Ho.over asked Doctor Pearl 

 to'-come to Washington for the period oiothe war and take 

 charge of this department of the Food Administration. The 



