little less than marvelous that in two months and a half he should have grasped 
he whole field in so perfect a way as to be able to write a book which is 
ecially illuminating to us who are in the middle of things and who cannot 
_ the perspective which he reached after he returned to France and collected 
classified his facts and impressions.. The larger part of the book is de- 
sd to the Bureau of Entomology, pages 52 to 198 being given to our Service. 
| rest of the Department is considered in the following 30 pages, and 20 
more are given to the experiment stations, the state entomologists, the Horti- 
cultural Commission of California, and the forestry services of the different 
tates. Then follow 40 pages on universities and agriculture colleges, especial 
spe ce being given to Cornell University and the Universities of Illinois, Calif- 
ornia, Stanford and Harvard. He is enthusiastic over the Association of Econo- 
mic Entomologists. The remaining 100 pages of the book are devoted to chapters 
On insect carriers of disease, the methods employed in the struggle against the 
enemies of crops (this chapter being devided into cultural methods, biological 
methods, and technical methods), the laws concerning the protection of plants, 
Gncluding the insecticide law, and a conclusion, In this conclusion, after 
praising in an unstinted way the establishments of this country and the work 
which has been done, he especially points out that, far from narrowing itself 
in applications of science, the United States holds a piace of the first rank 
in creative science. He thinks that France has much to learn from America, 
@lthough it would be a mistake in his country to create an organization im- 
aitating in all respects the Department of Agriculture at Washington. He shows 
that the economic cultural conditions are quite different on the two continents 
and that certain questions which have prime importance here have only a second- 
@ry interest in France. He is inclined to think that the United States Depart- 
Ment of Agriculture is rather over organized, and thinks that the future will 
bring about a simplification of its constituent elements. The lesson that he 
‘learned by his journey is that France can no longer remain stationary in these 
matters and that it should make efforts to organize biology as applied to agri- 
culture upon a large and solid basis, and he proceeds with practical suggestions 
in this direction. He praises the Federal Horticultural Board, the Federal 
yecticide Board, and the Horticulture Commission of California, and thinks 
that all of these should be imitated in France. He especially points out the 
Necessity for the introduction into France of such education as our young men get 
in applied biology in the agricultural colleges and universities like Cornell 
ent Illinois. There is, as he points out, in France at the present time no 
way of getting a scientific education in biological studies as applied to agri- 
cu. ture. 
After pointing out some of the great examples of monetary saving in this 
Country as the result of work in applied biology, he closes with the sentence, 
"These are great examples which it is well to recall, for they established with 
the most complete evidence the fact that there is no other sure way than that 
‘4g scientific organization of work to get full value from the national soil 
and to give back to agriculture the Letngts possible part of the riches which 
are lost to it annually from pests." [L. 0. H.] 




































WINNING OF WAR UP TO FARMER 
That the final responsibility for winning the war rests in a large 
Measure with the farmer was the conclusion of 62 state officials and represen- 
tatives of agricultural colleges from 32 states, who convened at St. Louis May 
9 and 10 to consider measures for the conservation of food supplies and the _ 
extension of production to protect the country against possible distress from 
shortage of food. 
