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A hearing has been called for May 8, on account of citrus canker. It is 
proposed to discuss the advisability of ee the further entry of citrus 
fruits from Oriental regions known to be infected with canker, to supplement the 
existing quarantine which prohibits the entry of citrus plants from all foreign 
countries. — 
a Provision has also been made for the entry of Oriental corn from all of 
t he countries covered by the corn quarentine under regulations requiring in- 
spection and steam sterilization. This Oriental corn is needed on the Pacific 
Coast chiefly for chicken feed in which there is a great shortage. The result- 
ing high prices have stimulated importations from countries like Australia, 
which haye never heretofore been a source of corn supply. 
, Mr. Busck, whose trip to Mexico was announced in the last number, reports 
that Villista activities in the Region of Torreon have prevented his making 
field inspections in the Laguna District. This situation is unfortunate, but 
the danger was evidenced by numerous outrages and attacks on trains, and at- 
tempts fairly successful +o blow up some of these. In the meantime however, 
he has been able to secure material for examination from the infected district, 
and to consult with a good many ranch owners, and has thus accumulated infor- 
“mation which will be of great value to the Department in relation ao the pink 
‘boll worm quarantine. 
 . Mr. R. I. Smith, the inspector in charge of the Boston Office, was in 
Washington for a few days to consult on his work. 
| Mr. James A. Dew, who pursued a course in general agriculture and took 
i entomology as & special study at Clemson College in 1909-1911, and, who was 
Tater employed as Assistant State Entomologist in Alabama, and who until very 
recently had charge of the citrus canker eradication work in Georgia and South 
Carolina in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department, 
has accepted an appointment under the Federal Horticultural Board and has been 
stationed as the Board’s Inspector at Bagle Pass in connection with the pink 
poll worm quarantine. At this time Hagle Pass is the principal danger point 
‘from Mexico, and all freight and other cars receive careful examination, and 
all transfers of goods are thoroughly safeguarded under Mr. Dew’s direction. 
FOREST ENTOMOLOGY. 
A. D. Hopkins, In Charge. 
c Carl Heinrich spent about a week in Ithaca and New York City examining 
“ypes of Forest Lepidoptera in the collections of Cornell University and the 
ricer Museum of Natural History. 
c F. CG. Craighead is spending several days in Wilmington, North Carolina 
nd Atlanta, Georgia investigating Prionus and Romaleum injury to oak shade 
ees there. 

Notes from the Eastern Field Station 
OS ad dete iio eet eee 
Falls Church, Virginia, 

The American tent caterpillar (Malacosoma americana) will be very 
