June, '17] CURRENT NOTES 381 



Mr. C. H. Popenoe of the Bureau of Entomologj' has recently returned from a trip 

 to Philadelphia for the purpose of inaugurating a fumigation of baled furs by the 

 vacuum system. The Jolm B. Stetson Company has recently installed a plant 

 capable of a capacity of 50-1200 poimd bales of fur per day. 



Provision has been made to repeat the vacuxmi fumigation tests with pink boll- 

 worm larvae under the direction of Mr. E. R. Sasscer of the Federal Horticultural 

 Board to confirm results obtained in the earlier experiments, and also to determine 

 the effect on these larvae of the residual gas remaining in cotton bales. The living 

 material for these tests was obtained from Hawaii through Mr. C. E. Pemberton. 



Mr. E. J. Vosler, who for several years has been secretary of the California State 

 Commission of Horticulture and editor of the Monthly Bulletin, has recently been 

 appointed foreign collector of beneficial insects for the Commission. Mr. George P. 

 Weldon succeeds him as editor of the Bulletin, and Mr. H. S. Maddox as secretary of 

 the Commission. 



The last General Assembly of Arkansas created a State Plant Board which will 

 henceforth have charge of all orchard and nursery inspection work, and will have 

 headquarters at Little Rock. Professor J. Lee Hewitt, plant pathologist of the 

 Station, has recently been appointed chief inspector, and for the time being should be 

 addressed at Fayetteville, Ark. 



The following transfers have been made in the Bureau of Entomology: E. J. New- 

 comer from Wenatchee, Wash., to Portland, Ore.; Alan G. Webb, Boston, Mass., to 

 Seattle, Wash.; G. D. Smith, Thomasville, Ga., to Madison, Fla.; A. J. Ackerman, 

 West Chester, Pa., to Benton Harbor, Mich.; Frank R. Cole, Washington, D. C, to 

 Hood River, Ore.; C. E. Smith, Baton Rouge, La., to Muscatine, Iowa. 



Dr. R. R. Parker, assistant entomologist of the Montana State Board of Entomol- 

 ogy', will continue the study of the Rocky Mountain spotted fever tick this season and 

 will be located in a field station at Musselshell, Montana. He will be assisted by 

 Mr. R. W. Wells, who received the degree of Master of Science in Entomology from 

 Montana State College this year. 



Dr. G. F. W^hite of the Bureau of Entomology, who has done much work on the 

 bacteria of apiary diseases, has now been assigned to diseases of insects, Cereal and 

 Forage Insect Investigations. He wiU give particular attention to bacterial diseases, 

 such as wilts of larvae, etc., and wiU be glad to receive specimens supposed to be 

 attacked by bacterial or other diseases. 



Mr. George H. Rea, who has been recently employed with the U. S. Bureau of 

 Entomology, has been appointed Chief Apiary Adviser under the Pennsylvania 

 Bureau of Economic Zoology, and wiU take immediate charge of the field work in this 

 line. Approximately fifty demonstration meetings have been arranged for the month 

 of May in various bee yards in thirty-three counties of the state. 



Mr. C. H. Popenoe, entomological assistant, and Mr. N. F. Howard, expert on 

 Insects as Carriers of Plant Diseases, both of the Bureau of Entomology, attended 

 the meeting of entomologists and plant pathologists at Pittsburgh, Pa., April 16-17, 

 to discuss plans for cooperation with the H. J. Heinz Company and state officials on 

 the project of insects as carriers of cucurbit wilt and other diseases of truck crops. 



The chief project taken up by Professor A. L. Loyett, entomologist at the Oregon 

 Experiment Station, consists of a study of the toxic sprays for insects. The work 

 this year wiU include an intensive study of spreaders for arsenate of lead, the use of 

 calcium arsenate alone and in combination under Western Oregon conditions, and 



