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about the Laboratory. This is the forth year that this Association has arranged such 

 a visit to the Laboratory. 



Dr. E. F. PhilHps, apiculturist of the Bureau of Entomology, attended the annual 

 field meeting of the Empire State Federation of Beekeepers' Co-operative Associations 

 held at Venice Center, N. Y., on August 4; the extension short course in beekeeping 

 given at the University of Wisconsin, August 7-11, and the annual meeting of the 

 Eastern Massachusetts Beekeepers, Association, to be held near Boston, Mass., on 

 August 19. He also expected to attend the annual field meeting of the Massachusetts 

 Society of Beekeepers, at North Andover, Mass., September 2. 



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On August 8 a large number of members of the New Jersey Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion, together with visitors from the Pennsylvania Nurserymen's Association, 

 visited the Japanese Beetle Laboratory at Riverton, N. J., for the purpose of obtain- 

 ing first-hand information about the beetle situation and observing the experimental 

 work under way. Members of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society on their 

 annual automobile tour also visited the Laborators' earlier in the month. 



Messrs. E. J. Newcomer and W. D. Whitcomb were in attendance at the fifth 

 annual meeting of the Northwestern Association of Horticulturists, Entomologists, 

 and Plant Pathologists which convened at Yakima, Wash., July 24-26. Several 

 sessions were devoted to the reading of papers and to discussions. Field trips were 

 made to commercial orchards, potato fields, coldstorage and packing plants, and to 

 the experimental orchard and laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology. 



Mr. Curtis A. Benton, who has been in charge of the Federal Port Inspection work 

 at New Orleans during the past year, resigned the first of September for the purpose 

 of taking post-graduate work at the University of Illinois. 



Messrs. R. Kent Beattie, David Lumsden, and J. M. R. Adams, Foreign Plant 

 Quarantine Service, Federal Horticultural Board, devoted considerable time during 

 the months of August and September to visiting various establishments which have 

 received plants during the past year under special permit. 



IVIr. E. R. Sasscer, of the Plant Quarantine Inspection Service, Federal Horticul- 

 tural Board, recently visited the ports on the Mexican border as well as the maritine 

 ports on the Pacific coast for the purpose of interviewing the inspectors and the 

 customs officials located at these ports of entry. 



The Annual Letter of Information, giving notes on pests collected from imported 

 plants and plant products by State and Federal Inspectors from January 1, 1921 to 

 December 31, 1921 inclusive, was recently published. This letter is available to all 

 inspectors engaged in examination of foreign plant material. 



The conference held by the Federal Horticultural Board in Washington to con- 

 sider the potato wart situation on August 22d, was attended by the following State 

 officials: Mel T. Cook, New Jersey, N. J. Giddings, West Virginia, T. B. Symons 

 and R. A. Jehle, Maryland, W. A. McCubbin, Pennsylvania, and L. M. Massey, 

 New York. 



