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is again at work in Tennessee, 
4% The last of the circular letters to beekeepers were mailed September 15, 
During the summer 340,500 mimeograph circulars and letters have been sent to bee- 
keepers throughout the country. The response has been highly satisfactory. 
in spite of the small honey crop from white clover, the honey crop of the year 
was large and beekeepers are planning for increase in production in 1918. 
SOUTHERN FIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
W. D. Hunter, Entomologist in Charge, 
Allan H, Jennings has been commissioned a first lieutenant in the Sani- 
tary Corps of the United States Army. 
Doctor Hunter spent the latter part of the month at Hearne, Texas, super- 
intending the eradication of an outbreak of the pink bollworm at that place. 
On October 4, a conference of southern entomologists was held at New 
Orleans to discuss the pink bollworm situation. I+ was attended by W.k.Hinds, 
Alabama; Franklin Sherman,jr., North Carolina; E.L.Worsham, Georgia; Wilmon 
Newell, Florida; E.E.Scholl and E.L.Ayers of the Texas Department of Agriculture; 
Prof. S.W.Bilsing of the Texas A. and M. College; W.R.Oodson,Director of the 
Lousiana Experiment Station;B.R.Coad, Tallulah, La., T.E.Holloway and W.D.Hunter, 
‘“After,a full discussion a resolution was passed to the effect that unless further 
infestation is found at some point in Texas it is unnecessary for any of the 
southern states to modify their present quarantine regulations or promulgate 
new ones. 
DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
A. L. Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge. 
On September 14 a conference was called by Dr. L. 0. Howard at Riverton, 
WN. J. to carefully investigate the present status of the recently introduced 
Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica. Those in attendance at ths conference 
weret Dr. L. 0. Howard, Prof. J. G. Sanders, Dr. T. J. Headlee, H. B. Weiss, 
E. R. Sasscer, Wm. O. Ellis and Dr. A. L. Quaintance. It was found that the 
beetle had established itself over an area of some 500 or 600 acres, being quite 
abundant in certain parts of this area. Thorough-going life history work is under 
way under the under the immediate direction of Mr. Wm. O. Ellis in cooperation 
with the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Special effort will be made 
+0 confine the insect to its present area of distribution and eradication measures 
will be undertaken if further study of the insect indicates such action as at all 
likely to be effective, 
Messers. Dwight Isley and H. C. Ingerson have recently completed an insect 
survey trip in the orchard section of Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas. This trip 
was made in connection with the recently establisted laboratory for deciduous 
fruit insect investigations at Bentonville, Ark. 
M. A. Yothers, formerly assistant Professor of Entomology in the Washing-~ 
ton Agricultural College, has been appointed to the position of Specialist in 
Apple Insect Investigations, and will undertake a thorough-going study of the cod- 
ling moth and other orchard pests in the Rogue River Valley, Oregon in cooperation 
with the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station. 
Oliver I. Snapp, a graduate of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, has been 
; appointed as a special field agent under the Food Production Act, and will be as~ 
