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FOREST ENTOMOLOGY ° 
A, D, Hopkins, Forest Entomologist 
‘A, B, Champlain, assistant in forest entomology, who has been in charge 
of a field station at Lyme, Conn,, has resigned to accept a position with the 
Bureau of Economic Zoology, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.: aa 
Carl Heinrich, specialist in forest Lepidoptera, has returned to his 
work in this branch after an absence of several months with tue hederas Horti= % 
cultural Board studying the pink bollworm in Texas, : 
L. C, Griffith, assistant in shade-tree insects, has also returned from 
the Federal piel acs Board to’ this branch, efor work from Lrownsville, Tex. fy 
northward to Maine, we 2 ee 
T. E, Snyder, specialist in forest Entomology, left Washington on February 
15 for a trip to Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, © 
He will continue his investigations begun in 1916 in southern Florida of the 
cause of the dying of the Casuarina trees. Studies will also be made of the: bis# 
ology and distribution of termites, and phenological records mals be we on 
plants’ and insects, 
F, C, Craighead, specialist in forest entomology, left Washington on 
February 17 for a trip to Florida, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Caro- 
lina, and Virginia, He will investigate the loss from pine borers suffered by 
lumber companies in Florida and other States and will Bee and record the 
phenological events of plants and insects, 
Dr, Hopkins will leave about the lst of March for a trip to Brownsville, 
Texas,, and go from there northward, to study the advance of spring as manifested 
by phenological events in plants and insects, farm and garden practice, etc.; 
also to study the conditions in the pine forests as related to the southern pine 
beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis Zimm.); and insects affecting shade trees, etc. 
Messrs. Snyder, Craighead, and Griffith will also study the adenine of 
spring along their different routes northward, Mr. Griffith's trip will mae 
to northern Maine and to the timber line on Mount Washington, 
.In these trips northward the field stations of the Bureau and the State 
Agricultural Experiment Stations along the route will be visited and the localiti 
utilized for phenological and entomolegical cbservations on the advance of spring 
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BEE CULTURE 
ty Bs Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge 
The week of February 24 a second extension school for commercial beekeepers 
was held at Ithaca, N, Y,, in cooperation with the Extension Division of Gornell 
University; Dr. ne F, Phillips and Geo, S. Demuth of the Bureau have gone fron 
Washington for the school and Geo, H, Rea‘’of the Bureau, now stationed in New ~ 
York, is also participating. This type of extension: pore seems to be extremely 
eff eines and the demands on the time of a picked faculty promise to be excessive 
R. B, Willson, formerly an employee and recently lieutenant in the Army, hat 
returned to civil dutieg. and is now in Mississippi working in the interest of be 
clubs and beekeepers for the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, 
J. V. Ormond, special field agent, has left Arkansas and is now working in 
Missouri where he will remain until, Aprii 1 . 


