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the use of nicotine sprays and oil sprays as repellents for insects which disseminate fire 

 bUght. 



Mr. W. H. Goodwin, who has been at the Ohio Experiment Station for nine and 

 one-half years, entered upon his duties May 1 at the Pennsylvania Department of 

 Agriculture, Bureau of Economic Zoology, and will be in immediate charge of the 

 sixteen men in the field, known as "crop pest advisers." Especial emphasis is being 

 placed this year on potato growing, with particular attention directed toward the 

 control of pests ordinarily affecting this crop. 



Dr. J. F. Ilhngworth, professor of Entomology, College of Hawaii, Honolulu, has 

 been granted a leave of absence for three years, in order that he may carry on investi- 

 gations for the Queensland government. He is to be located at Gordonvale, Cairns, 

 North Queensland, in the midst of the sugar-growing section. An experiment station 

 is to be developed, primarily for the study of the grub-pest, which is such a scourge in 

 certain cane-growing areas. 



The Connecticut legislature has recently passed a new crop pest law applying to 

 future emergencies, and giving the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station 

 authority to take such measures as may seem necessary for the extermination or 

 control of all pests. A separate measure has also passed, appropriating S15,000 for 

 the next two years for the control of the white pine blister rust; of this, $5,000 is at 

 once available, and work has already been started. 



The Iowa legislature has recently passed a law which reorganizes the apiary inspec- 

 tion work of the state and unites it with the extension work in beekeeping of the State 

 College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at Ames, according to the recommenda- 

 tions of the present inspector, Mr. Frank C. Pellett. This change becomes operative 

 July 1. It is understood that Mr. Pellett wiU relinquish the work on his own motion, 

 but no announcement has been made regarding his successor. 



Mr. H. L. Seamans, assistant state entomologist of Montana, will be occupied mth 

 crop defense work throughout Montana this season. In addition to answering 

 emergency calls to suppress outbreaks of insect pests, he will tour the state and con- 

 duct a survey of important pests. For the most part travelling in the various coun- 

 ties will be done by automobile in company with the county agricultural agents. 

 Several outbreaks of army cutworms have occurred already and young grasshoppers 

 are abundant in some locaUties in western Montana. 



Mr. J. L. King, who has been at the Ohio Experiment Station for five years, 

 assumed new duties in the Pennsylvania Bureau of Economic Zoology beginning 

 May 1, and he will devote his entire time and attention to a thorough biological study 

 of the Angumois grain moth, which, in the five southeastern counties of Pennsylvania 

 most seriously infested, caused damage to the extent of more than a million dollars in 

 1916. The biology of this pest has not been thoroughly determined in this country, 

 and the problem looks very interesting. 



Mr. J. L. Webb, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology, 

 has resumed work at Topaz, CaUf., upon the Tabanids, Tabanus punctifer and Taba- 

 nus phcenops. This project is undertaken in cooperation with the Nevada Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station. Studies will be made in Nevada and in adjacent 

 portions of California. These studies will include general data on the injuriousness 

 of the flies, their effect on growth and milk production, the relation between the 

 abundance of the flies and irrigation and drainage, together with biological data and 

 studies upon methods of control. 



