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George S. Demuth left on March 8 for a trip through Montana, Idaho, Wash- 
ington and Oregon for the purpose of studying the beekeeping possibilities of 
these States and of consulting with State inspectors and entomologists in these 
states concerning their work, He will return about April 20. 
a BE. G, Carr, apiary inspector of New Jersey, has been appointed Collabor- 
tor. He will make a survey of beekeeping in that State in conjunction with the 
office of the State Entomologist. 
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DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
A. L, Quaintance, In Charge. 
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: John'B, Gill, who has been spending a few weeks in Washington preparing 
manuscripts on pecan insects for publication, has returned to his field head- 
quarters, Monticello, Fla., to resame hig field duties. 
4 H. K. Plank has returned to his field headquarters at Grand Junction, 
Colo., where he will now be in charge of the Bureau work in the control of the 
codling moth in the Grand Valley. 
a The laboratory at Wenatchee, Wash., has been discontinued and E. J. 
Newcomer, in charge of stigmonose investigations, has been transferred to Port- 
land, Oregon, which place is now his permanent headquarters. 
FEDERAL HORTICULTURE BOARD. 
C. L. Marlatt, In Charge. 
4 The quarantine against Indian corn or maize, and certain closely related 
plants from the Orient, has been modified, effective April 1, 1917, to allow 
maize from Japan and Manchuria to come in under permit, on condition that it is 
sterilized at the port of arrival under supervision of an inspector of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. Prectically all such corn will enter through the port of 
Seattle. Mr. Alan G. Webb, who has for the past year and a half been stationed 
at Boston, engaged in the inspection of imported potatoes and assisting in the 
Supervision of the disinfection of imported cotton, has been transferred to 
Seattle to supervise the sterilization of imported corn. Mr. Webb will also 
take care of the inspection service in reletion to cotton, potatoes, and other 
pliant products et Seattle and nearby ports. 
a Provision has been made to repeat the vacuum fumigation tests with pink 
bollworm larvae under the direction of Mr. BE. R. Sasscer, to confirm results 
obtained in the earlier experiments, and also to determine the effect on these 
larvae of the residual gas remaining in cotton bales. The living material for 
these tests was obtained from Hawaii through Mr. C. EB. Pemberton. 
‘ The pink bollworm inspection and control service is being rapidly organized 
in Texas under the direction of Dr. W. D. Hunter of the Board, with Mr. T. C. 
Barber in field charge. To expedite the control and clean-up work of the cotton 
ills, which received during the year 1916 Mexican cotton seed, the cooperation 
of the Office of Markets and Rural Organization has been secured to the extent 
of the detail for this purpose of three expert cotton agents. 
In view of the occurrence of the pink bollworm in Mexico, both the cotton- 
seed guerantine and the regulations governing the importation of cotton into the 
Jnited States have been amended, effective July 1, 1917, providing for a closer 
supervision of importations of cotton seed, seed cotton, cottonseed hulls, and 
lint cotton from the Imperial Valley in Lower California, Mexico. 
