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in the Valley. Distribution after hibernation follows prevailing winds down the 

 canyon, but owing to the scarcity of food plants, beetles are becoming more widely 

 separated than usual. Flights of one to two miles, severa,! of which occur a day, are 

 not uncommon. Since the average net return from an acre of beans is about $15.00, 

 expensive control measures cannot be instituted. 



Dr. J. M. Swaine, Chief of the Division of Forest Insects, Entomological Branch, 

 Canandian Department of Agriculture, returned to Ottawa on August 2d, after 

 spending some time in eastern Quebec and New Brunswick. Dr. Swaine reports 

 an interesting situation in connection with the outbreak of the eastern spruce bark 

 beetles of the Gaspe Peninsula. A considerable amount of the infested area was 

 burnt over and some of the timber killed by fire in July, 1921. On this burn, all the 

 large spruce which were scorched only at the base, are now attacked by the above 

 insects, and this dying timber is drawing the infestation from the living timber for a 

 long distance around the burned area. These trees are serving as traps and will 

 be cut this coming winter. 



Mr. Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist, spent most of the week ending 

 June 18th in western Ontario in connection with official matters. During this period 

 the European Corn Borer Laboratory at Port Stanley, Ont., the Field Crop Insect 

 Laboratory at Strathroy, Ont., and the Fruit Insect Laboratory at Vineland, Ont., 

 were visited. On June 26 to 28, he attended the second annual convention of the 

 Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists held at Macdonald College, Que., 

 having been elected a member of the Dominion Executive. Mr. Gibson was recently 

 honoured by being elected an Honorary Member of the Quebec Society for the Pro- 

 tection of Plants. Mr. Gibson left Ottawa on July 16th for the maritime provinces, 

 during his visit to the east he will investigate the work being carried on by various 

 officers of the Branch in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. 



Mr. K. M. King, B.Sc, of Charlottesville, Va., was recently appointed Entomologist 

 for Saskatchewan with headquarters at Saskatoon. The position in Saskatchewan 

 has been vacant since the resignation of Dr. A. R. Cameron in 1920, owing to the 

 fact that it has been impossible up to the present time to find a suitably trained man 

 for the position. Mr. King received his training at the University of Washington 

 and the Montana State College, and received his degree from the latter institution in 

 1920. Mr. King has had experience with grasshopppers and the pale western cut- 

 worm in Montana, which fits him particularly for his future work in Saskatchewan. 

 Since April 1920, he has been engaged with the Bureau of Entomology working on 

 insects affecting field crops. Mr. King served with the United States Army in 

 France. He will report for duty in Saskatoon about the middle of August. 



The following men have accepted temporary appointments at the Japanese Beetle 

 Laboratory, Riverton, N. J., for this summer and have reported for duty: Prof. W. A. 

 Price, of Purdue University; Dr. Henry Fox, of Mercer University; H. H. Pratt, 

 a graduate of Rutgers College, and J. H. Painter, a graduate of the University of 

 Maryland. There was received at the Japanese Beetle Laboratory earlier in the 

 spring what is believed to have been one of the largest shipments of imported parasite 

 material ever brought into this country from abroad. Something over a hundred 

 thousand cocoons of a tachinid known to be parasitic on the Japanese beetle in 

 Japan were sent to the laboratory by C. P. Clausen and J. L. King, who are stationed 



