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: ae Dr. Snyder represented the Bureau of Entomology on the Nae 
waonal vourmission of Wood Utilization, at its second annual meeting, at 
Washington, D, C., presided over ty Secretary Hoover, of the Us S, Department 
of Corierce. The Construction Subcommittee is to prepare a manual on "The 
Eeonomicsof wood Utilization in Construction," which will include standard 
ized specifications and preservative treatments to prevent insect attack. 
The wood Preservatives Subcormittee has arranged to have always available a 
continuous supply of lunber, preserved by standard chemicals and according to 
methods approved by the Anerican Wood Preservers! Association. The first _ 
area will be the territory included in a circle of 50 miles radius about St. 
Louis, lio., as a center, Foth of these programs will materially aid the Pu 
reau of Entorology in its efforts to have standardized tmilding codes to 
prevent damage by insects, and especially the plan of having preserved wood 
available for the retail trade at different centerss 
Recently Dr. Stephen As Forbes, Chief of the State Natural History 
Survey, Urbana, I1l., and Dr. E. Kanehira, Government Institute of Science, 
Formosa, Japan, consulted with Dr. Snyder on termite control. 
On May & William Middleton and T. BE, Snyder inspected coniferous tim 
bers recently removed from the roof of the White House. The roof has been 
so greatly weakened that it had to be replaced. It was found that the timbers 
of the roof had been powderposted by a cossonid, Hexarthrum ulkei Horne This 
insect has caused sinilar injury to buildingsin New York and Washington, and 
has also daniaged flooring in houses in Washington, . 
_ Some of the specimen box bushes bordering the drive on the north side 
of the White House have been very heavily infested by the boxwood leaf miner, 
-and Mr, Middleton, of this office, has been active in making recomendations 
and offering advice to lr. Reeves, of the white House, in combating the insect, 

DECIDUOUS+FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
Ase Le. Quaintance, associate Chief of Bureau, in Charge 
Harold He Shevard, 2 graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 
lege, has been appointed Assistant Entomologist and assigned to duty at 
Washington, D. Ce, where he will bqpssociat ed Wither, Ceidesrachardson an 
insecticide investigations. 
Dr, Ne E, McIndoo, who has been engaged in insecticide studies, with 
headquarters at washington, D, Ce, has been transferred to the ficld service, 
with headquarters at the Sligo, Md,, laboratory, 
Oliver I, Snapp, in charge of the peach insect laboratory at Fort 
Valley, Ga., writes that the first adult curculios there emerged from the 
soil on liay 24, which is the earliest first-emergence date in seven years. 
Two full broods are anticivated, and he is expecting second-brood larvae to 
infest the Hiley peaches this year, The Hiley is a mid-season variety. 
