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concern, the room will be used by the Bureau as an: example of just such. 
a tight room as has been advocated for years. This room has attracted much 
attention because of the present widespread interest.in fumigating rooms on 
the part of warehousing concerns throughont the coubry. Practically all 
new up-to-date houses for the storage of household furnishings are being 
equipped with fumigating rooms. ‘The latést firm to include such a room is 
the Atlas Storage Warehouse Company of Philadelphia, which has consulted 
the Bureau regarding the installation of a ae eta a room in its half- 
million-dollar structure now being completed. 

CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
1 NS erica, Entomologist, in Charge 
L. H. Worthloy and D. J. Caffrey visited Washington October 29 for 
a. conference with B mreau officials on the Huropean corn borer work, 
C.-M. .Packard attended’ the Ls etapa ag bs: held at Lancaster, 
Gets On Ncveumber 19, for the pirpe e of discussing the alfalfa aphis 
Sieuation. He reports a very e excelie ae and well-attended meeting of the 
farmers in the Seah ai Valley. 
Des Ws. J. Phillips visited Washington on November 13 for consultation 
with Bureau and Museum officials. 
W. R. Walton visited Arlington, Mass., on November 13 and 14 for 
an informal con:’erence with the investigators conducting the work on the 
@€an corn borer. : 
C. C. Hill and H. D. Smith recently surveyed nine wheat-growing 
counties in eastern and middle Pennsylvania for — ssi ian-fly infestation in 
the -young wheat. infestation was found to be very light throughout the 
res examined. 
. Cecil W. Creel, formerly in charge of the Cereal and Forage Insect 
. Laboratory at Forest Grove, Oreg., and now Director of Extension, University 
of Nevada, visited the Forest Grove Laboratory on November 4. 
E. E. Russeil, in charee of the Chalcis fly investigatiohs at the 
sub-station at Ywia, Ariz., spent a few days in the middle of November 
in consultation with V. L. yilesmth at the Tempe Laboratory. 
In the first week in November E. V. Walter, of the Tempe Laboratory, 
made a survey trip through southeastern Arizona and southwestern New 
Mexico, investigating the present status of the southwestern corn borer. 
The only new infestation found was in a low region of hills west of Tucson, 
Ariz., where tne insect made a 2c5-mile jump. giving an entirely new 
infestation. ‘the damage, in known infested areas, however, was much more 
severe this year than in years past. 
