: - MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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Number 153 | ; | | January, 1927. 



DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
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A. IL. Quaintance, Associate Chief, of Bureau, in, Charge” 
Dr. BD. A. Porter, in charge of the Vincennes, Ind., laboratory, 
talked before the Illinois State Horticultural Society on December 15, on 
the codling moth... He also appearcd on the program of the New York State 
Horticultural Society on Janunry 12, and discussed lubricating-oil emulsions, 
Dr. Porter spent. several’ wéeks in Washington, but has now returned ‘to his 
permanent headquarters at Vincennes. 
m Dr. A. A. Granovsky, of the University of Wisconsin, spent several 
days in January studying aphids with Dr. Mason. Dr. Granovsky is especially 
interested in the Callipterini and is working on a monograph of this group. 
Dr. Merrill, of the Florida State Plant Board, visited the Buréau in. 
January to study the collection of Aleyrodidae. 

Ape BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I. Hambleton, Apiculturist, in Charge 
“EB. L. Sechrist, of the Bee Culture Laboratory.of the Bureau of Ento-~_ 
mology, was:one of the speakers at the Beckecpers'! Short Course at Cornell 
University in the latter part of January. Fini] Fe “ee 
Visitors at the Bec Culture Laboratory in. the month of Jenuary 1n- 
cluded F. B. Meacham, Instructor in Beckecping at the North Carolina State | 
College of Agriculture, BE. R. Root, President of the A. I. Root Company and 
‘one of the editors of Gleanings in Bee Culture; H. H. Root, General Manager | 
Of the A. I. Root. Company; A. A. Granovsky, Assistant Entomologist, epee 
sity of Wisconsin; Chas. BR. Justice, a California honey denier, aind M1ss..- 
¢. Lucas, of England, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University.... 
aes In January Jas. I.. Hambleton attended beekeepers! mectings in Little «.< 
) Rock, Ark., and the annual meeting of the American Honey Producers! League, 
at New Orleans, La. 7 42 ) 
