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The possibility of controlling forest insects over large areas 
of virgin forest has been demonstrated. The success of this project will 
mean a2 more general adoption of control methods throughout the pine forests 
of the West and the consequent saving of millions of board feet of timber 
from destruction by insects, 
F, P, Keen, who has had charge of the entomological supervision of 
the Southern Oregon ~ Northern Califormia pine beetle control project dur- 
ing the past year, visited Washington to confer with the chief of the 
Branch of Forest Insects in regard to plans for continuing the work during 
the Coming year, 
A statement in a resolution by the Society of American Foresters 
at the Boston Meeting, as published in Science, that Dr. Hopkins had 
resigned as chief of the Branch of Forest Insects was founded on rumor. 
Dr. Hopkins has for some years contemplated arrangements which would enable 
him to devote his entire time to research in bvioclimatics, and while the 
carrying out of this plan is wnder consideration no Change of duty has yet 
vbeen made, 
R. A. St. George returned to Washington on March 1 after a trip 
through Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana where he visited lumber 
companies to investigate insects injurious to finished ani crude forest 
products, Cooperative experiments have been started with these companies 
to prevent future damage, 
FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A, L, Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 
The bureau's laboratory at Fresno, Calif., in charge of A. J, 
Flebut, where grape insect investigations have been carried out for some 
years, has been discontinued and Mr, Flebut transferred to Lindsay, Calif., 
to undertake work on the citrus thrips and other fruit insects, The citrus 
thrips has become exceedingly troublesome in Central California during the 
last year or so. 
A, C, Mason, who has long been associated with W, W., Yothers at the 
bureau's laboratory at Orlando, Fla., has been transferred to Lindsay, 
Calif., and will give special attention to biologic, ecologic, and other 
Studies of the citrus thrips. 
O. I. Snapp, in charge of the bureau's laboratory at Fort Valley, 
Ga., submits the following information: Many full-grown adults of the San 
Jose scale have been found during January and February in peach orchards 
in the vicinity of Fort Valley. These have been observed giving birth to 
young, ani crawlers were abundant. The low sites jibdeheet de of the week 
February 12 to 18, when the mercury went as low as 18°F, at this point, 
killed many of the matured scales. The cold weather appears to be more 



