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what they will have to say I invite your spscial attention. Through 

 its search for economic plants that will thrive with little wtter, 

 through its studies in the use of water for plants that nee 1 more, 

 through its soil investigations, its forest work, and in mony other ways, 

 the Dep irtment of Agriculture is working at the problems which 

 you are met to consider. These problems a re national in their scope, 

 and it is most fitting that they should 03 studied by the agencies of 

 the National Government 



The water problem, like the forest problem, is essentially a id pri- 

 marily one of conservation and use. The waste of water in floods and 

 the waste of forests by fire are parallel losses, each utterly hostile to 

 the best interests both of the farmer and of the nation at large, ani 

 each preventable by perfectly well-known means. Enlightened pub- 

 lic opinion and the use of expert skill are the two forces which are in- 

 dispensable if we are to " save the forests and store the flools," in ac- 

 cordance with the admirable motto of your Congress. Tne creation of 

 public sentiment will be immensely forwarded by your meetings, and 

 you may safely look to the National Government for some 

 part at least of the trained skill to study the water problems which 

 confront the irrigator, and to make the forests of the Great West, and 

 of the East as well, yield their products year after year and decade 

 after decade in unbroken abundance. The vast developments which 

 you are planning can become permanent only by the junction of wise 

 conservatism with energy; a id the natural resources which have cos 1- , 

 you nothing must be protected and husbanded with the same trained 

 care which you are making ready to bestow upon vast systems of ar- 

 tificial works for irrigation. The chief dangers which threaten your 

 plans — one the failure to secure the building of these great works, the 

 other the failure to protect the forests from which your waters come — 

 are best met, like most of the dangers which threa'en our country, by 

 the broad diffusion of wise principles ( The Forester.) 



ADDITIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 

 DEPARTMENT. 



Library. 



EUROPB. 



British Isles. 



Botanical Magazine, Dec. [Purchase!.] 



British Trade Journal, Dec. [Editor.] 



Bulletin, Kew Gardens App. 1. L901. [Director.] 



Chemist and Druggist, Nov. 17, 24, Dec. I, 8, 15, 22. 



Garden, Nov. 17, 24, Dec. 1, 8, 15, 22. [Purchased.] 



Gardener's Chronicle, Nov 17, 24. Dec. 1, 8, 15, 22. [Purchased.] 



International ->ugar Journal, Dec. [Editor.] 



Journal of Botany, Dec. [Purchased.] 



Journal Royal Colonial Institute, Dec. 



Journal, Roval Hort. Society, Nov. 



Nature, Nov. 15, 22, 29. Dec. 6, 20. [Purchased.] 



Pharmaceutical Journal, Nov. 17, 24, Dec. 1 8, 15, 22. [Editor.] 



Sugar, Nov., Dec. [Editor.] 



"West Indian and Commercial Advertiser, Nov. [Editor.] 

 France. 



Sucrerie indigene et coloniale. Nov. 20, 27. Dec. 4, 11, 18. [E litor.] 



