December, '15] 



CURRENT XOTES 



561 



Dr. E. F. Phillips, Bureau of Entomology, attended a meeting of the farm demon- 

 strators of Xorth Carolina at Raleigh on August 21 and 23 for the purpose of arrang- 

 ing for a new line of work soon to be undertaken. It is planned to make a sm'vey of 

 the state for the purpose of determining the possibilities of building up beekeeping 

 and to test out, in cooperation with the county agents, various lines of extension 

 work. E. G. Carr, deputj' state apiary inspector for New Jersey and a director of 

 the National Beekeepers' Association, has been appointed to do the field work on 

 this project and will begin work on October 1. ]Mr. Carr has had extensive experi- 

 ence as a practical beekeeper and has served as inspector for several years. 



]\lr. J. R. Horton, Bureau of Entomology, in field charge of the citrus fruit insect 

 investigations in Louisiana, recently- submitted an account of the hurricane which 

 passed through southern Louisiana on September 29. He reports that in an experi- 

 mental orchard at Venice fully 95 per cent of the oranges were blo^Ti off the trees, 

 many of them being carried considerable distance. Orange trees were hterally 

 whipped to pieces and the fohage discolored, as though scorched by fire. Practically 

 aU of the ant traps and fumigation covers at Happy Jack were destroyed. i\Iany 

 hghts were broken out of the laboratory windows in New Orleans, and one chimney 

 was blown down. A large percentage of the cages used in fig-borer experiments 

 were blown over, and many of the specimens disappeared. IMr. Horton left New 

 Orleans on September 28, and was at a point near Doullutt's Canal, which was 

 in the worst section of the storm. 



Recently two new vdie cages have been added to the Eastern Field Station of the 

 Bureau of Entomologj^ at East Falls Church, Va. Both of these consist of a tem- 

 porary framework with a concrete foundation and covered with a lattice roof and 

 completely screened in with 14-mesh galvanized screen whe. One of these is to be 

 used for experiments dealing with insects injurious to crude forest products and the 

 study of the life histors' of various secondary insects. The other one is to be used 

 for hfe-historj' studies of the introduced Evetria huoliana and Diprion simile. In 

 constructing this cage great care has been used. It is to be double-waUed and to 

 have a vestibule entrance. Ever\^ possible precaution has been taken in building 

 this cage because of the danger of hberating specimens of these injurious forest 

 insects. In this cage it is planned to grow various species of pines which may serve 

 as hosts of the two imported species. The experiments are to be conducted entirely 

 on growing trees and under conditions which very closely approximate those found 

 in nurseries and forests. 



Mailed December 10, 1915. 



