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STORED PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
E. A, Back, Entomologist in Charge, 
At the request of the Federal Public Health Service Dr. Back spent Easter 
Sunday in New York investigating the condition of the storage space recently 
taken over at the Bush Terminals by the Quartermaster's Department of the 
National Army It had been determined to fumigate these warehouses but the 
ae showed that fumigation was neither necessary nor desirable at 
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|. Again, during the latter part of April, Dr, Back visited New York for the 
purpose of consulting with Col, H. S. Cole, Storage Officer of the Port of New 
York, regarding infestations of Federal stored products at the Bush Terminals. 
As a result of this trip, and the cooperation between Dr. Howard and Col, F. B. 
Wells, Q. M. Corps, N, A., Director of Storage and Traffic of the War Depart- 
ment, Col. Wells has given his approval to the establishment, by this Bureau 
of some System of inspection of all Federal stores in New York City intended 
for shipment Over=seas, Dr. Back will soon work out the details of this coop- 
eration between the Quartermaster's Department and the Bureau of Entomology 
with Col. Cole in New York. It is hoped that this service rendered the Quarter- 
master's Department by the Department of Agriculture will prove of value jn pre- 
venting, in a large measure, much of the excessive losses that have been and are 
still taking place in Army supplies. | 
Barly in April, Dr. Back and E, R. Sasscer of the Federal Horticultural 
Board visited Brooksville, Florida for the purpose of looking into an outbreak 
of the broad=-nosed grain weevil, Caulophilus latinasus. In addition to previous 
records of the occurence of this little-known weevil, quite a few new points of 
distribution have been determined so that it now appears that this pest is so 
well distributed throughout Florida, at least, that there is no need of special 
quarantine measures against it. 
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The outbreak of: Dermestes vulpinus in a fertilizer factory at Norfolk, Va. 
that was investigated last fall has continued to receive the attention of this 
office, A. B. Duckett has made several trips to Norfolk to secure data on the 
prevalence of this pest and has secured some very interesting results. 
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F, B. Milliken has changed his headquarters from New Orleans to Amarillo, 
Tex. During the past two months, Mr. Milliken has been devoting his entire 
- attention to a study of insect conditions in warehouses, flour mills and 
granaries at various points in Texas, One of the interesting phases of his 
work has been an inspection, from an insect standpoint, of the food supplies 
at several of the Army camps in Texas, 
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R. L, Clute, whose headquarters are at Gainsville, Fla., has been traveling 
about the state of Florida gathering information regarding the actual status of 
corn stored under varying conditions. It is interesting to note that where 
progressive farmers have properly housed their corn and have fumigated it, 
