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The severe winter and deep snows have interfered considerably 
with the field work carried on by the Bureau of Entomology against the 
Bipsy moth, particularly in New England. Scouting has been particularly 
to cover certain sectionsof the territory, to equip the scouts with snor 
MOeS. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. R. Walton, Entomologist in Charge 
Philip Luginbill and WV. J. Phillips, of the bureau field stations 
h at Columbia, S. C., and Charlottesville, Va,, respectively, visited the 
Washington office during the first part of March for the purpose of dis- 
cussing the season's plan for the corn earworm investigations to be con= 
ducted in Virginia and South Carolina. Mr, Luginbill remained in 
Washington for about 10 days in order to finish a manuscript for a tech- 
Mical bulletin on the fall armyvworn. 
a Ww. H. Larrimer, of the West La Fayette,Ind,, station and Stewart 
Lo kwood of the Billings, Mont., grasshopper station, will accompany 
C. L. Fluke, assistant entomologist of Wisconsin, to Door County of 
nat State during April to determine the severity of the grasshopper 
infestation in that locality and, if necessary, plan an investigation as 
2 basis for control. 
W. R, Walton, in charge of Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations, 
ind Stewart Lockyvood, in charge of the Billings, Mont., Station, will 
fisit Winnipeg, Manitoba, on April 18 and 19 to attend a meeting of the 
International Northwestern Committee on Insect Pests. While in Winnipeg, 
ir, Walton will deliver an address before the Natural History Society of 
fanitoba on "Some phases of insect parasitism." 
STORED-PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
BE, A. Back, Entomologist in Charge 
The Sunday, March 11, Farm and Tractor Section of the Los Angeles 
ime S published an interesting article on bean weevils, entitled "Shall 
lifornia Continue to Grow Beans for Hungry Bugs?", by A, O. Larson, 
| J. C. Bridvell, formerly with the bureau, has left Washington for 
w York City, Address Greer School, Huntington, Long Island, WN. Y. 
Dr. Back spent several days in New York early in January in con- 
tion with the so-called mothproofing process for fabrics now so 
lifficult on account of snow conditions and it has been necessary, in ibd 
