August, '22] PACIFIC SLOPE NOTES 325 



Pacific Slope Notes 



Dr. E. P. Van Duzee, who has been collecting in Utah, visited the Agricultural 

 College at Logan and took part in a trip to White Pine Lake. 



Mr. George E. King, formerly Assistant Entomologist of the Utah Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, has entered the University of Illinois. Mr. King will assist 

 in apiculture and do graduate work. 



Mr. Justus Stevens is acting as field assistant in Entomology at the Utah Agri- 

 cultural College. Mr. Stevens will take the place of Mr. George E. King who 

 has entered the University of Illinois. 



Dr. James G. Needham of Cornell University gave a series of three lectures to 

 summer school students of the Utah Agricultural College. Dr. Needham was the 

 guest of Dr. I. M. Hawley, head of the Department of Zoology and Entomology 

 of the Agricultural College. Collecting trips were taken to White Pine Lake, 

 Logan Canyon, and Franklin, Idaho. On the last named trip a serious outbreak 

 of the "Mormon cricket" {Anahrus simplex) was visited. 



Prof. Ralph H. Smith, formerly entomologist of the Idaho Station and now with 

 the California Central Creameries Co., with headquaters at San Francisco, Cal., 

 has traveled for six weeks through the Eastern States, visiting most of the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Stations. He was at New Haven, Conn., on June 16th, and demon- 

 strated the use of casein spreaders in spray mixtures. 



A change in the personnel of the entomological staff of the University of Idaho 

 and in the plan of organization has recently been made. With the resignation of 

 Mr. Ralph H. Smith, Mr. Claude Wakeland has been appointed Experiment Sta- 

 tion Entomologist and has been succeeded by Mr. Don B. Whelan as Extension 

 Entomologist. Mr. Whelan received his graduate training at Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College and at Ohio State University. He was Extension Entomologist 

 for Michigan for three years, resigning to accept a position with the Dow Chemical 

 Co. After a year in commercial work he entered business on his own account in 

 Michigan, but has returned to professional work because of the greater interest it 

 holds for him. Under the reorganized plan of work, experimental and extension 

 entomology will be conducted with very close co-operation, since both phases of 

 work are under the supervision of the Station Entomologist. The outstanding 

 extension problem for the season is spraying for control of alfalfa weevil, and the 

 main experimental problems are control of eleodes beetles attacking grain crops 

 and control of alfalfa weevil by dusting. 



Apicultural Notes 



The Connecticut Beekeepers Association held one of its summer field meetings, 

 Saturday, June 24, at the home of Miss Caroline Baldwin, New Haven. 



Mr. George E. King, formerly of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Logan, 

 Utah, is now in charge of Apiculture at the University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



The Maryland State Beekeepers' Association held a meeting at the Bee-Culture 

 Laboratory on June 29th. This Association has paid a visit to the Laboratory 

 for the past several summers. 



