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Mr. R. T. Cotton, Bureau of Entomology, recently investigated the Angoumois 
grain moth situation in Salem County, N. J., and in and about Charlottesville, Va. 
Wheat thrashed late in the season in these localities was very badly damaged. These 
examinations were a continuation of those made by Dr. Back and Mr. Cotton on the 
farms of Montgomery County, Md. In Montgomery County late-thrashed wheat 
was frequently found damaged from 40 to 90 per cent., while wheat thrashed^directly 
after harvest showed less than 1 per cent, infestation. 
Mr. L. S. McLaine left Ottawa on September 28th for a trip to the Maritime 
provinces and Boston, and returned to headquarters on October 16th. During his 
trip he arranged with the provincial authorities in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia 
the brown-tail moth work for this coming winter. He also visited nurserymen in 
Nova Scotia in connection with the apple sucker quarantine, and investigated certain 
matters relating to the fumigation and inspection work carried on in New Brunswick 
and Nova Scotia. During his visit to Boston, he interviewed the officials connected 
with the European corn borer and gipsy moth work. 
Messrs. C. H. Popenoe, J. E. Dudley, Jr., R. E. Campbell, and J. E. Graf of the 
Bureau of Entomology attended the pea aphis conference in Chicago at the Sherman 
Hotel, November 9 and 10, for the purpose of arranging cooperative work on the 
insect in the interest of State Entomologists. The conference was largely attended 
by State Entomologists and representatives of canners. As a result of the meeting, 
recommendations governing future work on this insect were drawn up and endorsed 
by both entomologists and canners. Present plans contemplate establishing a 
large laboratory in one of the central states and cooperative tests with various 
State Entomologists in all important pea-growing sections. 
The annual meeting of the Crop Protection Institute was held at Rochester, N. Y., 
January 11. Professors W. C. O’Kane, P. J. Parrott and W. E. Britton of the 
Board of Governors were present, and Professor O’Kane was elected Chairman for 
the coming year. At the dinner following the meeting, Professors W. C. O’Kane, 
P. J. Parrott, Lawson Caesar and Mr. H. L. Frost were speakers. Other entomolo¬ 
gists present were Hugh Glasgow, and Dr. M. D. Leonard. The New York Horti¬ 
cultural Society held its annual meeting at the same time at Rochester and in addition 
to the entomologists mentioned above, Dr. E. P. Felt and Professors G. W. Herrick, 
C. R. Crosby and H. E. Hodgkiss were among those in attendance. 
According to the October News Letter of the Bureau of Entomology, the Bureau 
now has 75 field stations, 71 of which are located in 33 states. Texas has eight, 
California and Florida six each, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oregon four each, Massa¬ 
chusetts has three and Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, North 
Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington two each. Arkansas, 
Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, 
Montana, Ohio, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin have one each, 
and there is one in the Canal Zone, one in France, one in Japan, and one in Hawaii. 
Mr. C. H. Popenoe, Bureau of Entomology, returned from an inspection trip in 
the Estancia Valley in New Mexico where he conducted observations and made 
preliminary plans for work on the Mexican bean beetle. Arrangements were made 
for overwintering the beetles in outdoor cages under varying mountain conditions and 
for securing data the coming season on winter mortality and dispersal of marked 
