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‘~NEW BOOKS IN LIBRARY. (Continued). 
Dept. of Agriculture, Behar and Orissa. Crop Pest Handbook for 
pBehar and Orissa (including also Western Bengal). Calcutta, 
s thacker, Spink & Co., 1913. 82 separately paged "Leaflets", 
| 54 plates (mostly colored) 
io. The pests are grouped under the crop and the crops under 
@eeereo Givisions, as I. Cereals. II. Pulses. IIJ. Oilseeds. 
meouv, Fibres. V. Spices, drugs and narcotics. VI. Sugar. VII. 
) Dyes. VIII. Vegetables. IX. Fruits. X. Palms. 
Peociety for the Protection of Piants from Insects and Fungous 
' Diseases 1915-1914. Sixth Annual Report. Quebec, 1914. 
©» 85p. illus. 
Me Ot the Secretary of Agriculture 1914.- D. F. Houston. 48p. 
BS Of the Chiefs of the different Bureaus, Divisions and Offices 
> of the U. S&S. Department of Agriculture (From Annual Report 
“of the Department of Agriculture 1914). . 
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BEE CULTURE. . . 
De, BH. FP. Phillips, In Charge. 
i apiary is now located at Drummond, Montgomery County, Md., and 
Feached by the Tenleytown cars. 
FOREST INSHCT INVESTIGATIONS. 
s A. D. Hopkins, In Charge. 
HHofer have joined Entomological Ranger Morris Chrisman in an Inves- 
Sn Of forest insect conditions in the mountains of Southern Arizona. 
he reports on experimentation and demonstration control work against 
mdroctonus beetles, carried on in the Yosemite National Park in cu- 
ion with the Department of the Interior, with Entomological Ranger 
Sullivan as instructor on practical details, and on private lands of — 
Jioud River Lumber Company, north of Mt. Snasta, in California, with 
logical Ranger J, D. Riggs as instructor, show the following results: 
Sin the Yosemite Valley and vicinity, at an elevation of from 4,000 to 
© feet, 302 Dendroctonus infested trees were treated consisting of yel- 
Weffrey, and sugar pine. The trees ranged in diameter, breast high, 
Pa2 to 68 inches, with an average of 31 inches. The average cost of 
ing, barking, and the necessary burning was $2.57 per tree. 
@etomological Assistant W. D. Edmonston and Entomological Ranger 
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In the Toulumne River and Tenaya Creek drainage of the Yosemite Park, 
bn elavation of from 8,000 to 9,500 feet, 2,018 infested lodgepvle pine 
23, ranging in diameter from 14 to 82 inches, averaging £5.7 inches, 
6 treated at an average cost of $1.13 per tree for felling and baraing 
bark on the trunks sufficiently to kill the insects. Hirteen hondced 
"@ighty-four infested trees were treated in this general area in 1913, 
‘The total number of trees treated in the Valley and Park during 1915 
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1914 were 3,904, at a total cost for control work of $4,715.45, or an 
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