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Dr, HE. F, Phillips recently attended the annual meeting of the National 
Beekeepers' Association in Chicago where he delivered an address on "Nectar 
secretion.” The previous week he attended the meeting of the Massachusetts 
Federated Beekeepers' Association at Boston, Mass,, where he spoke on "Winter- 
ing bees," 
C. F. Stiles, recently special field agent in Oklahoma, has resigned to 
engage in the bee supply business, 
R, F, Wixson, special field agent for Virginia, is just recovering from a 
severe attack of influenza, He will not be able to continue his work and has 
sent in his resignation, 
DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A, L. Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 
A, J. Ackerman, engaged in apple insect investigations in the Ozarks, was 
in Washington for a few days for the purpose of conference regarding his work, 
. and has now returned to his permanent headquarters at Bentonville, Ark. 
R, W. Kelley, who has been engaged in extension work in deciduous-fruit in- 
sect control in Indiana, has accepted appointment under the Insecticide and Fungi- 
cide Board, and will be attached to the laboratory at Vienna, Va., under the im- 
mediate charge of E. W, Scott. Mr. Kelley will give special attention to testing 
proprietary insecticides as to efficiency claims on a practical scale in orchards. 
Geo. G. Becker, formerly connected with the Arkansas Agricultural College, 
has been appointed as agent, and will be engaged in extension work in deciduous- 
fruit insect control in Arkansas, with headquarters at Fayetteville. 
The following men have been in Washington. temporarily, preparing manuscripts 
on the subjects of their field investigations: E, H, Siegler, H, K, Plank, B, R, 
Seecue win. O. Ellis, and B, A, Porter. 
STORED PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
BE. A, Back, Entomologist in Charge 
At the request of the Quartermasters Department of the Army, the coopera- 
tion between the Bureau and the Army begun during the war for the protection of 
food supplies at the Army supply base at Brooklyn, N. Y., will be continued, at 
least throughout the coming summer and fall. 
Harry H, Stage, who has been engaged to take up the work of the Leite kas 
Duckett, is a 1916 graduate of the New York State College of Forestry, where he 
specialized in entomology, botany, and pathology, Throughout the latter part of 
his college course Mr. Stage assisted Dr M. W. Blackman as instructor siete the 
college year, and during the summer of 1915 was in field charge, under Dr. E, 3 
Felt, of the Sodus Bay, N. Y., mosquito-contro] work. He is joint author with 
Doctors Felt and Blackman of several entomological papers. Mr. Stage enlisted at 
the beginning of the war in the U, §,. Public Health Service, and recently has been 
honorably discharged, He comes to the Bureau well recommended by Dr. Blackman, 
Dr, Felt, Prof, Chas, C. Adams, and Surg, W. H, Carter, 
