October, '22] current notes 379 



The European corn borer scouting \\ork was started in Canada on July 24th, but 

 all the crews were not at work until August 1st. Five crews are now engaged in the 

 scouting and up to August 5th, twenty-four townships were scouted, eleven of which 

 were found infested. A total of 412 fields were examined, comprising about 1929 

 acres of corn. 



Mr. J. C. M. Gardner is a Carnegie student and not a Rhodes Research Scholar as 

 was stated in the August issue of this Journal. Besides visiting Canada he spent 

 oix months in the United States and traveled from Washington to the Pacific Coast 

 and back a."ain, visiting field stations. He also investigated the gipsy moth and 

 European corn borer work near Boston, and sailed for England on August 22. 



During the latter part of August and the early part of September, Dr. A. C. 

 Baker of the Bureau of Entomology made a trip through the northeastern part of the 

 United States, observing insect conditions in the grape belt in western New York 

 State and Ohio, and visiting the Bureau field stations at Sandusky, Ohio and WaUing- 

 ford. Conn., and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Professor H. A. Ballou, Entomologist to the Imperial Department of Agriculture, 

 located at Barbados, British West Indies, will move his office to the West Indian 

 Agricultural College, St. Augustine, Trinidad. This has resulted from the amalgama- 

 tion of the department of Agriculture and the Agricultural College. Professor Ballou 

 will have charge of the entomological work in the College and the experimental work 

 in the West Indian Islands, as heretofore. 



Mr. W. R. Walton, Bureau of Entomology, in company with Mr. Arthur Gibson, 

 Dominion Entomologist, and Doctors Craighead and Tothill, reached Fredericton 

 on July 20, and proceeded to the head waters of the Cains River. On the 21st, they 

 traveled by canoe to the mouth of the river where it unites with the Miramichi, a 

 distance of about 70 miles, and saw much injury caused by the spruce bud worm. 



Mr. L. S. McLaine, Chief of the Division of Foreign Pests Suppression, Canada, 

 returned fiom the west on July 14th. During his journey eastwards he met and dis- 

 cussed with the various Provincial officials the proposed changes to the regulations 

 under the Destructive Insect and Pest Act, and also visited the fumigation stations 

 at North Portal, Sask., and Winnipeg, Man. Mr. McLaine left for a short visit to 

 southern Ontario the latter part of July and returned on August 3d. 



Arrangements have been made with the management of the Dallas News and 

 Dallas Journal to broadcast from their radio station talks by F. C. Bishop of the 

 Bureau of Entomology on insects and their control. It is planned to make these 

 talks timely and presented in simple form so that they can be understood and utilized 

 by all classes of people. There is a lively interest in the radio throughout north Tex- 

 as, and this is especially apparent in the rural communities. It is believed that these 

 talks will aid the farmers in combating insects which threaten their crops and also 

 help disseminate information on those forms inimical to domestic animals and poultry. 

 Considerable attention will be paid to disease bearing insects and household pests. 

 The first talk of the series was broadcasted on September 5th, and it is planned to 

 give out regularly two talks each week. The first was of an introductory nature en- 

 tilted "Insects and Human Welfare." Some of those following deal with the cotton 

 leaf worm, mosquitoes, the boUworm, the screw-worm, Argentine ant, and ox warble. 



