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cause of the trouble is not known but it appears to be a combination of Prionus affect- 

 ing the roots, and Agrilus bilinealus and Pityophthorus pruinosiis in the trunks and 

 branches. 



Mr. Geo. H. Rea, former state inspector of apiaries in Penns3-lvania, has been 

 appointed agent to conduct the extension work in beekeeping in North CaroUna for 

 the Bureau of Entomology in cooperation with the North Carolina College of Agri- 

 cultui-e and Mechanic- Arts, Raleigh. He will be under the administrative super- 

 vision of the State Entomologist, Franklin Sherman, Jr. Mr. Rea spent a few days 

 in Washington and left for North Carolina on September 18. 



A new greenhouse is now being built for the branch of Truck Crop and Stored 

 Product Insect Investigations, Bureau of Entomologj^-. It is modeled after the first 

 one constructed for this branch of the Bureau in 1914, and it is to be used for fumi- 

 gating different forms of insects affecting cucumber and related plants, tomatoes, 

 lettuce, beans and other truck plants grown under glass under different conditions of 

 light, moisture and temperature. 



The followong men in the Bureau of Entomology have recently been transferred 

 to other work or localities: A. J. Flebut, Southern Field Crop Insect Investigations, 

 to take up work on the chestnut weevils; A. G. Webb, Boston, to Minnesota; H. W. 

 WiUis, Newark, N. J., to Brooklyn, N. Y.; Dr. Henrj' Fox, Charlotteville and Tap- 

 pahannock, Va., to Clarksville, Tenn.; E. H. Gibson, Mo., to Washington, D. C; 

 George W. Barber, Maxwell, N. M., to Wellington, Kans.; H. B. ScammeD, 

 Brown's Mills, N. J., to Toms River, N. J.; D. G. Tower, Office of Tropical 

 and Subtropical Insect Investigations, to Federal Horticultural Board and sta- 

 tioned at the Port of New York; W\ E. Dove, Aberdeen, S. D., to Dallas, Tex.; D. G. 

 Caffrey, Maxwell, N. M., to Tempe, Ariz.; C. F. Turner, Greenwood, Miss., to West 

 Lafayette, Ind.; J. M. Langston, Greenwood, Miss., to Forest Grove, Ore.; C. M. 

 Packard and T. D Urbahns, Pasadena, to Martinez, Calif. 



During October a distinguished party of South Carolinians visited Louisiana and 

 parts of Mississippi for the purpose of obtaining first-hand information regarding the 

 boU weevil. The party was headed by Governor Manning and included the presi- 

 dent of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, the dh-ector of the Experiment 

 Station, and chau-man of the Board of Trustees of Clemson College, and representa- 

 tives of the State Bankers' and Cotton Seed Crushers' Associations, and several 

 others. It was accompanied thi-oughout its trip by W. D. Hunter. The party made 

 a thorough study, especially with reference to the steps which can be taken in South 

 Carohna, to avoid the losses and demoralizations which have practically invariably 

 followed in the wake of the boll weevil. It is anticipated that the fuU report of the 

 Commission, which is to be written by Dr. Riggs, president of Clemson College, will 

 be an historic document. 



Mailed December 9, 1916. 



