pt. 1.... 418, 435, 475, 492, 493, 499 Thirtieth An. Rpt. 1917, pt. 1. 418, 422, 443, 474, 480, 493, 499 Maryland Station: Bul. 211, Jan,, 1918. 447 Massachusetts Station: Met. Buls. 353-354, May-June, 1918.. 419 Michigan Station: Spec. Bul. 88, Mar., 1918... 457 Spec. Bul. 89, Mar., 1918.. 445 Bul. 281, Feb., 1918.. 450 Tech. Bul. 38, Dec., 1917. 455 Tech. Bul. 40, Sept., 1917 419 Circ. 35, Apr., 1918. 444 Minnesota Station: Rpt. Duluth Substa., 1917.... 435, 445, 474, 477, 479, 480, 482, 493, 499 Rpt. Morris Substa., 1916... 435, Rpt. Morris Substa., 1917.. 436, 478, 491, 499 444, 478, 499 495 Bul. 154, Mar., Circ. 84, Apr., 1918. 496 New Jersey Stations: Hints to Poultrymen, vol. 6, No. 9, June, 1918..... 482 454, 455, 456, 475, 476 Bul. 624, Citrus-fruit Improve- Bul. 670, The Results of Physical 477 448 493 468 460 452 488 439 U. S. Department of Agriculture-Contd. | U. S. Department of Agriculture-Contd. Bureau of Soils: Field Operations, 1916 Paga Soil Survey of Mitchell Soil Survey of Richland Public Roads, vol. 1, No. 2, States Relations Service: Syllabus 32, Illustrated Lec- Weather Bureau: Nat. Weather and Crop Bul. Scientific Contributions:1 Detection of Added Color in 422 499 INS 493 498 418 416 433 460 Bureau of Crop Estimates: 440 Mo. Crop Rpt., vol. 4, No. 6, June, 1918.. 497 A. W. McKay.. 444 Doc. 11, A Portable Farm Granary, L. M. Jeffers, W. J. Larkin, and A. L. Rush... 494 Food Snrveys, vol. 1 No. 4, May 31, 1918.. 472 No. 5, June 8, 1918. 472 The Work of the Yuma Reclamation Project Experi ment Farm in 1916, R. E. Blair....... 443, 444, 474, 479, 497 1 Printed in scientific and technical publications outside the Department. [Insectivorous Birds of Louisiana], H. H. Kopman... Report on Arachnida Collected by Messrs. Currie, Caudell, and Dyar in British Columbia, N. Banks.... Alteration of Hosts in Eco nomic Aphids, W. M. Da Descriptions of New Lepidop tera from Mexico, H. G. Dyar... in the United States, W. D. Hunter.... 460 464 464 465 465 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. VOL. 39. OCTOBER, 1918. No. 5. The intimate relation of our agricultural institutions to reconstruction measures affecting agriculture lends a special interest to the steps which are being taken by other countries in this direction. This interest increases as the war progresses and it becomes more evident how far-reaching and radical its effects are upo. all our industries. It is seen with respect to agriculture that many of these influences and changes will be of a permanent character, while the effects of others will be felt in modified form. All need to be taken account of to the permanent interest of the industry. The readjustment of agriculture to the changed conditions and changed point of view will afford an unusual opportunity for strengthening its position and bringing about improvements in country life long advocated if proper guidance is exerted. There will be many problems to be worked out and many conflicting interests to be met, which will call for a strength and courage supported by clear vision and exact knowledge of the facts. This gives enlarged opportunity and new obligations to our agricultural institutions, which must be largely relied upon for wise leadership and stimulation in working out and promoting quite definite policies. It should give them a position of unusual influence. A notable example of timely preparation for agricultural reconstruction is furnished by Great Britain, where the position taken is of particular interest because it involves some of the most radical suggestions regarding agriculture which have been put forward anywhere, representing a revolution in the attitude toward food production and the use of land. Matters relating to reconstruction have commanded attention in that country for some time, reflecting the conviction that the problems and adjustments must be anticipated as far as possible and the answers or proper courses of action determined before instead of after the close of the war. At the outset this matter was in the hands of a cabinet committee, but later more definite provision was made by the appointment of a special committee headed by the Prime Minister, which was commissioned "to anticipate the urgent |