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Mr. Ernest Hargreaves, who visited the United States in 1915, entered the British 

 military service soon afterward, and was engaged during the remainder of the war, 

 spending most of the time in Italy on anti-malaria work, which was very successful, 

 has been discharged from mUitary service and is now demonstrator in entomology 

 at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, London. 



Recent appointments to the Bureau of Entomology are as follows: Prof. S. T. 

 Howard, Clemson College, S. C, as mechanical engineer, boll weevil force, Tallulah, 

 La.; G. D. Dorrah, J. H. Huff, C. P. Smith, M. C. Rogers, C. H. Wilhams, (tempo- 

 rarily) boll weevil force; L. B. Sanderson, W. G. Bemis, F. W. Grigg, E. M. Searls, 

 H. R. Carpenter, H. L. Parker, B. E. Hodgson, H. J. Cronin, C. S. Anderson, H. J. 

 Authier, F. L. O'Rourke, J. H. Kelley, C. W. Knapp, corn borer laboratory, Arhng- 

 ton, Mass. 



A hearing was held in Washington, D. C, October 8 regarding an appropriation 

 to check the spread of the European corn borer, before a subcommittee of the United 

 States Senate. There were present commissioners of agriculture from Massachu- 

 setts, New York, Delaware and Virginia and the following entomologists: E. P. 

 Felt, P. J. Parrott, C. R. Crosby, New York; W. E. Britton, Connecticut; J. G. San- 

 ders, Pennsylvania; E. N. Cory, T. B. Symons, Maryland; W. P. FUnt, IlUnois; E. D. 

 Ball, Iowa. 



Recent transfers in the Bureau of Entomology have been announced as follows: 

 William O. EUis, Japanese beetle investigations, Riverton, N. J. to European Corn 

 Borer work; F. L, Simanton, Benton Harbor, Mich., and MonticeUo, Fla., to Hessian 

 fly work at Centralia, 111.; C. F. Turner, West Lafayette, Ind., to take charge of the 

 European Corn Borer work at Schenectady, N. Y.; George B. Fisher, corn borer 

 work, Arhngton, Mass., to Hessian fly work, Wichita, Kans.; R. J. Fiske, Columbia, 

 S. C, to West Lafayette, Ind. 



T. E. HoUoway, of the Bureau of Entomology, reports that the Cuban parasites 

 of the sugar-cane moth borer, which were imported during the past summer, were 

 allowed to emerge in cages at his laboratory in Audubon Park, New Orleans, and were 

 then released on three plantations in different parts of southern Louisiana. He has 

 just found that they are breeding at all three plantations, having passed through 

 probably three generations in Louisiana. The prospect for establishing them, if they 

 can hve through the winter, is very good. 



Annual meetings of various beekeepers associations were arranged to be held as 

 follows : Eastern New York Beekeepers Association, County Court House, Albany, 

 Nov. 20; Western New York Honey Producer's Association, Genesee Hotel, 

 Buffalo, Nov. 14 and 15; Michigan Beekeepers Association, Lansing, Dec. 9 

 and 10; Ontario Beekeepers Association, Carls Rite Hotel, Toronto, Dec. 11, 

 12 and 13; lUinois State Beekeepers Association, Springfield, Dec. 9 and 10; Kansas 

 Beekeepers Association, Topeka, Dec. 18 and 19; Northern lUinois and Southern 

 Wisconsin Beekeepers Association, Rockford, lU., October 21. 



In a recent communication from Dr. O. F. E. Winberg of the Bureau of Entomology, 

 who has been acting in charge of the work against the sweet-potato weevil in the state 

 of Alabama, it is stated that the most thorough investigations and inspections so far 

 during the present harvest season have failed to show the presence of the weevil in the 

 Grand Bay district, in which a small number of farms showed infestation two years 

 ago. The measures adopted have been the destruction of all infested sweet potatoes, 

 through clean culture, hogging down the infested patches, and careful inspection of 

 new plants known to be weevil free or to have been brought from weevil-free districts. 



