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Price list 41, ed. 6. Insects. Publications of the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture for sale by the Superintendent 
of Documents. August, 1915. 
rel, Victor and Crolas, Ferdinand. 
Manuel pratique des sulfurages. ed. 17. Villefranche 
(Rhone) [189°] 1232p. 
BEE CULTURE, 
E. F. Phillips, In Charge. 
Recent visitors at the Bee Culture Laboratory were Mr. E. R. 
f instructor in Bee-Culture, at Cornell University, Mr. BE. G. 
Win, Associate Editor Beekeepers’ Review, of De Land, Florida, 
Dr. D. B. Casteel of the University of Texas, who was connected 
.° office for two summers. 4 
Dr. EH, F. Phillips returned recently from a trip West on which 
attended a Beekeepers’ field meeting at the Dadant apiary, Hamil-_ 
Hy tilinois, and a meeting of apiary inspectors at Keokuk, Iowa. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
FPF. M. Webster, In Charge. 
Professor ¥. M. Webster is at present on a tour of inspection 
the western field laboratories. He will visit all of the western 
} southwestern stations of this section pefore returning to Wash- 
Zton. 
oir. Irving R. Crawford, temporarily attached to the range cater- 
iar investigations at Maxwell, New Mexico, has resigned :rom the 
rvice in order to engage in other work. 
Professor F. M. Webster recently visited the Connecticut valley 
i@ other sections of New England in connection with the grasshopper 
mtrol investigations, This experimental work has been conducted 
| the field by Mr. Harrison BE. Smith and has proven highly succéss~- 
fl. The poison bran bait was extensively used. 
Mr. V. L. Wildermuth of the Tempe, Arizona laboratory recently 
bent some time in Washington in the preparation of manuscript for 
iblication. i 
’ Wr. D. J. Caffrey reports the recovery of the parasitic fly 
Dmpsilura concinnata from specimens of the range caterpillar taken 
t a point where a colony of the fly was liberated during the summer 
£1914. This apparently indicates that the parasite has become 
itablished, Mr. Caffrey also reports the range caterpillar as in- 
uring seriously corn and other cultivated crops in the vicinity of 
laxwell, New Mexico during the past summer. The insect has therefore 
nfined its attentions almost exclusively to the blue gramma grass 
$i! he cat tle ranges. 
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