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poration with the Office of Extension Work in the South, States Rel- 
@. The good results obtained in the preliminary work in North Carolina 
dicate that work of the character proposed will be of great benefit to 
keepers, . Assignments for this work have not yet been made. 
Tea FP, Phillips is Planning to attend the Field Meeting of the Beekeepers 
Bpper Mississippi Valley at Dubuque, Iowa, August 1 and 2, and the series 
meetings in Tennessee beginning August 9. Field meetings of this char- 
proving more beneficial than the usual en meetings of the beekeepers’ 
ons. 
tS now coming to the Bureau indicate that the season is one of the finest 
8 clover honey that has ever been experien Swarming has generally been 
EREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS, 
W. Rs. Walton, Acting in Charge. 
3 Items from the Tempe (Ariz.) Field Station. 
: July 20, 1916. 
caer marina has been the surprise of the month, Adults can be seen by 
Bands over alfalfa fields and the little sluglike larvae are doing a great 
f damage to alfalfa bloom upon which they feed. 
chophagus funebris continues to be cn the incr rease, and in many fields 
gstation is so heavy that farmers are cutting their alfalfa for hay instead 
mig it go to maturity for seed. The loss will run into hundreds of thousands 
*s this year to seed growers in the Salt River Valley alone. 
experiments made in Arizona to determine the best means for poisoning grass. 
it was found that a pound of white arsenic ‘Arsenious oxide) was just as 
ont @s the same quantity of Paris Green, and treatments made at 5 p m were 
sifective as those made at 44m. Several hundred acres were treated and 
’ Bteir success. “Blackstrap", the refuse from sugar factories was noted to 
‘than baker’s sorghum for sweetning the mash. A half pound of white arsenic 
as ogether inefficient, less than five percent of the hoppers being killed. 
V. L. WILDERMUTH, 

NEWS ITEMS FROM CHARLOTTESVILLE (VA.) FIELD STATION. 
July 14, 1916. 
nity of Warrenton, Va., the 
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SSian fiy reported to this laboratory as being destruc 
Va. 
ecies of Crambus doing serious injury to corn in the vicinity of Warrenton 
Lottesville, Va. 
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