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4 A series of meetings of beekeepers will be held early in July at points in 
Vermont under the supervision of Dr. Burton N. Gates, now a Collaborator of the 
Bureau, A similar series of meetings is being arranged in western Maryland which 
ill be attended by Kennith Hawkins and G. H. Cale of the Maryland State College of 
Agriculture, now Collaborator of the Bureau. 
DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS, 
A. L. Quaintance, Entomologist In Charge. 
Dr. A. L. Quaintance and E. H. Siegler visited Ney Haven, Conn. June 6 and 
conferred with Dr. W. E. Britton, relative to cooperative work to be undertaken by 
the Bureau of Entomology and Dr. Britton’s office on deciduous fruit insects, 
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especially the apple-tree tent caterpillar. A laboratory has been established at 
Wallingford, Conn., which will be headquarters for the investigations. HE. H. 
Siegler will be in charge of the station and R. A. Cushman will have charge of 
the investigation of parasites. 
B. A, Porter, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, has 
been appointed to assist R. A. Cushman in the study of hymenopterous parasites of 
deciduous fruit insects and will be stationed at Wallingford, Conn. 







FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD. 
Cc. L. Marlatt, Chairman. 
In the working relation to the pink bollworm in Mexico, it is developed 
that there is considerable risk of the entry of cotton seed with such cottonseed 
products as cake and meal, A hearing was therefore held on June 4, 1917, to 
eonsider restricting the admission of cottonseed products into the United States. 
The regulations proposed are to include prohibition of entry into the United 
States any of these products milled near the Texas-Mexican border, This pro- 
vision has particular relation to a small cottonseed mill established at Piedras 
Negras and to which large quantities of seed have been brought involving very 
serious risk inasmuch as the seed is heavily infested with pink bollworm, 
Later it developed that to safeguard the situation fully and to make it 
impossible for this mill to continue operations, it would be necessary to re- 
‘strict the movement, from Mexico, of cottonseed oil also. A hearing was con- 
ducted to consider this phase of the subject on June 19. 
| As a result of these two hearings orders have been issued, restricting 
the admission of cottonseed oil, cake, meal, and all other cottonseed products 
from Mexico, and all of these products, execpt oil, from all other foreign 
countries; and the necessary regulations will be promulgated shortly, 
| In addition to the restrictions on the cottonseed products, regulations 
have been drafted governing the admission of railway cars and all freight, 
baggage, etc., from Mexico into the United States to prevent the carriage of 
the pink bollworm in cars or freight and baggage. These regulations will in- 
volve inspection and certification of all cars, freight, etc., and a disinfect- 
ton of all cars and freight where any risk of carriage of cotton seed or of 
living pink boll worms or moths appears, 
August Busck has returned from his trip to Mexico announced in the last 
number of this letter. He made a careful examination of cotton fields on both 
sides of the Mexican border in the Brownsville-Matamoros region without finding 
