MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT LIBERTY BONDS- 

ARADOXICAL AT FIRST GLANCE, IT IS NEVERTHELESS TRUE, THAT THE WAR WILL BE WON 
ARGELY BY THOSE WHO STAY AT HOME! UNLESS WH, IN OUR "HOME TRENCHES", CARRY 
OR OBJECTIVES, OUR MEN AND OUR ALLIES MUST SUFFER, PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY! 
§ THE LACONIC JOHN PAUL JONES SAID, WHEN CALLED UPON TO SURRENDER - SURRENDER! 
HAVE NOT YET STARTED TO FIGHT!" SO WILL WE, IN ONE VOICE, BY EVERY THOUGHT 
ND ACTION, DECLARE THAT WE TOO - "HAVE NOT YET STARTED TO FIGHT!" HE WHO WOULD 
TEN DAY-DREAM OF THIS TURMOIL CLOSED BY PREMATURE PEACE ~- IS A COWARD OR MAUDLIN, 
WD BY THE SAMH TOKEN, THE EXAGGERATED PRIVATIONS AND SACRIFICES WITH WHICH WE 
REDIT OURSELVES, MUST BE ECLIPSED BY THE NECESSITIES OF THE COMING MONTHS! 
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GIVE OF YOUR RESOURCES WILLINGLY! 
THIS COUNTRY NERDS NO RECREANT SYMPATHY - OR ARRANT DOLLARS! 

BOOKS FOR YOUR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. 
The American Library Association through its Library War Service is conduct- 
ing a nation-wide campaign for the gift of books for the soldiers and sailors. For 
very man in service it hopes to have a book in service, The fund of $1,700,000. 
iready given by the American people covers the erection and maintenance of the 
uildings and library service at the 32 cantonments as well as the purchase of the 
9oks themselves, but this is far to small to satisfy the great demands for books 
hich are now coming in. A half million more are needed at onee, The need 
an be filled if the American will help again, No money is asked now - simply that 
ou shall go over your bookshelves and give what you can spare to the men in khaki. 
hese books are to be turned in at appointed places whence they will be sent to 
he Library of Congress and later forwarded to the camps, transports, naval stations 
ind overseas. Send novels, tales of adventure, detective stories and standard fic- 
ion; up-to-date books on civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, the trades, 
business, the professions and agriculture; recent text-books on military subjects, 
athematics, the sciences and foreign languages} books of travel, history, biography, 
etry and the present war; dictionaries and nev encyclopedias. Books given by mem- 
ers of the Bureau of Entomology in Washington may be brought to the Bureau Library 
ir to the Main Library of the Department of Agriculture. 
DOCTOR HOWARD VISITS ENTOMOLOGY FIELD STATIONS: SOUTH AND WEST. 
i The Chief of the Bureau returned from a trip to the South and West on the 
‘ith of March. He visited the stations at Orlando and Miami, Florida, and stop- 
ed at West Palm Beach to see Mr. T. N. Wilson, County Agent, and local men of 
rominence about the possibility of undertaking an investigation of the damage 
lone to live stock by gad-flies in that region. Texas fever-tick extermination 
as been carried to such a point in that part of Florida that the gad-flies 
emain the only serious difficulty in successful cattle raising. He visited the 
tation at Audubon Park, New Orleans, and also saw Messrs. Milliken, Hutchison 
nd King in that city. He stopped at Houston to consult with Doctor Hunter, and 
OTE: Owing to press of work, delaying the publication of this number, it has been 
ecessary +o cover two months in this single issue. 
