

"MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
TED ye ie DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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| SpeGctober, 1919 
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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATION 

W. R. Walton, Entomologist in Charge 















pa The following appointments have been made in connection 
cor rn borer investigations at Arlington, Mass::-. M. D. 
Bis Samuel Blum, recently of Cornell Oaiveres ty, 
assistant, effective October 11, and assigned for duty on 
worm Meestigatione at the Colunbia® ». C., station. 
ide R. H. Van Zwaluwenburg, reatertald engaged on the. investigation of the Euro- 
2 an corn borer at Arlington, Mass., has returned :to Hagerstown, Md., to continue 
studies of the wireworm. 
a eo WwW. H; Larrimer and A. L. Ford, of the West Lafayett Ind 
were in Washington for a short time aur is the month. 
with the European 
Leonard and H. W. Allen. 
has been appointed scientific 
the southern corn root- 
., field station, 
DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
oA. L. Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 
A. J. Flebut, who was formerly attached to this office and who resigned to 
e enter Military service, has been reinstated and will be in charge of the Bureau’s 
laboratory at Fresno, Chis. where investigations are under way concerning grape 
insects in that region. 
a Joseph Edwin Fouser, a graduate of the Ohio State University, has been 
appointed scientific assistant and will be engaged in testing proprietary se 
insecticides against insects in connection with the enforcement of the Insecticide 
DA Act. of 1910. g 
J B. R. Leach, who has been in charge of field operations in connection with 
é apple insect investigations at Dover, Del., has- Ses to Washington and will 
be engaged in preparing reports on the subject of his field investigations. 
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BEE CULTURE 
a E. F, Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge 
E. F. Phillips, G. S. Demuth, and A. P. Sturtevant recently left to en 
a series of extension short courses for commercial beekeepers in ieee. . 
Idaho, Washington, California, and Texas. They will be gone during ee a 
eeinner. Similar. courses have been arranged for the last of January an 
month of February in Ohio, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, and New es ne 
Through the efforts of George H. Rea, field agent in — or os ae 
tion with the Sugar Equalization Board, considerable sugar has been secu 
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