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means of press bulletins scattered the information through the country 
newspapers. I wrote a personal letter to about four to six editors in 
each county, enclosing a copy of the press bulletin and urging them to 
print it if they had not already done so. 
As I remember it, our State Secretary of Agriculture estimates that 
the wheat acreage of Ohio has been increased from 10 to 20 per cent 
over last year’s acreage. It is of course impossible to tell how much 
of this result was due to our survey, which was part of a general propa¬ 
ganda engaged in by several state departments to increase the acreage. 
I sent questionnaires to all county agents not visited, so that we had 
fairly accurate knowledge regarding all parts of the state. Of our 88 
counties, our surveyors personally investigated 56. 
We published fifteen or sixteen entomological articles, each from 
two to twelve or more pages in length, in our Monthly Bulletin, making 
these of a timely character. Part of these were written by the Uni¬ 
versity staff. About 45 press bulletins were published. Our station 
editor keeps a careful record of how many papers make use of the press 
bulletins, and he reported to me that some of our bulletins were printed 
in 77 different papers and were adapted for use by two or three press bu¬ 
reaus. In no cases were the bulletins printed in fewer than from fifteen 
to twenty papers. We seemed to be getting all the publicity needful. 
Of course we could not determine very accurately how much of our 
advice was being used. In some counties, where we had the outbreak 
of potato aphid, the county agent would be cooperating with the horti¬ 
cultural department of the University, with private concerns like the 
Kentucky Tobacco Product Company, which had a skilled entomolo¬ 
gist on the ground, and with us all at the same time. We only know 
the totals of such results. In one of our counties the saving was large 
as recorded in the Bulletin on the potato aphid recently distributed 
from our station. 
Perhaps the methods we used are not the best that can be devised 
but they were the best we could think of to put into operation quickly 
under the circumstances previously detailed. 
President R. A. Cooley: Professor Osborn has arrived and we 
will now be pleased to hear from him. 
Mr. Herbert Osborn: I believe we may all agree that this subject 
can properly be widened to cover both production and preservation 
of food. It goes without saying that we, as good Americans, will do 
everything in our power to support our government in the present 
crisis and will respond wherever duty may call. It is also evident 
that a particular phase of entoinological work is offered in connection 
with army service for the medical and sanitary phases of work and in 
which it may be hoped our training may be utilized. The phase of 
