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BP se many draws in the open market. The confidence of tk 
‘retained and it is believed that there hack be ce oO 1e growers has been 
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F more effective cooperation in ee tican ss i little difficulty in securing 
erties will be undertaken durin mid Oe ee a 
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Be ciivoness of ti y g midsummer and at harvest time to demonstrate 
 ertavan ne if He Siero A small-scale eradication test will be 
} i u ne seasiae mornino=: at 2 cee Be ig eet ae Ste hw p 
lorning-glory in the vicinity of Daytona, Fla 
4 ASC the feasibility of a beaueen having A eee 
mune complete eradication of the weevil in the State of Plordds 
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"4 oS: Boyden, statvioned at Daytona, Fla,, will visit sweet-potato weevil 
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© itt ie x. in Mississippi and Louisiena during the month of May, to confer 
is ‘ ei, ate and CG. EH, Smith as to experimental work on heat treatment 
of sweet potatoes and on morning-glory eradication 
pens. H, Jones has returned to Florida to resume work against the insect 
enemies of watermelons which was terminated by the frost of April <, 
Q. S. Lowry, truck-crop extension entomologist in Massachusetts, resigned 
May 1 to enter other employment, : 
M, J. Kerr, who has received his discharge from the military service, will 
return to his work in inspection of the sweet-potato weevil at New Orleans, La, 
STORED PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATION: 
EZ, A, Back, Entomologist in Charge 
A, 0. Larson, formerly engaged in the Extension Work with Dr. A, L. 
Quaintance, has been appointed entomological assistant to undertake investiga- 
tion of bean and pea weevils in California, Mr, Larson has established tempo- 
rary headquarters at 800 North Marguerita Ave,, Alhambra, Calif, , and writes 
that he has the hearty cooperation of the bean growers! association and of ware- 
Housemen who are becoming alarmed at the rapid increase in weevil infestations, 
The old established belief existing throughout the South that beans grown in 
California are free from infestation is rapidly being cispelled by the large 
amount of infested California material that is now appearing on the market. 
Richard T, Cotton, who has been in Washingten for several weeks, has re- 
turned to Orlando, Fla., to continue his investigations of weevils attacking corn. 
S, BE, McClendon, extension agent in Georgia, is doing good work in inter- 
esting farmers throughout that State in the construction of better facilities 
for the protection of corn from weevils. He writes that & number of modern 
eribs will be erected this summer and that he is kept busy advising farmers as 
to the construction of +hese cribs, Mr. MeClendon is not meeting large eudi- 
ences, but is devoting his time to men likely to be interested in the conscrva- 
tion of corn, hoping in this way to have good cribs established on farms, parti- 
cularly throughout southern Georgia, where it can be demonstrated +0 the sur-= 
rounding farmers that the enormous losses now taking place through weevil attack 
can be profitably avoided. 
F, B, Milliken is esta 
Tex,, where he will continue nis studies of mill pests, P 
tention to the species of Triboliun. . 
H, H, Stage states that during the past month he has been engaged in report- 
ing to the storage officer of the New Arny Supply Base the condition of large 
supplies of foodstuffs stored in Brooklyn, 
plishing a laboratory at 812 BE, llth St., Dallas, 
aying particular at- 
