
H. A, Jaynes and 7, R. Gardner, Who have been attacked to the Japanese 
Beetle Laboratory et Riverton, No Ja, Will soon sail for Japan with C. P. 
Clausen. Thess men will be assoc lated with Mr. Clansen in connection With the 
of 
Bureau's search for parasites he Japanese bestle, 
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Fe Je Brinley, Wao has be3n connected with the Japanese Beetle Laboratory 
at Riverton, N. J., has beer semporarily assigned to the Bdgeviood, Md., 
arsenal of the Chemical Warfare Service, War Department, for ths purpose of 
underteking coorerative studies of different war gases os determine their 
value in insect control. 

BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
E, Ff. Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge 
Dre Be Fs Phillips attended the annual meeting of the Americen Honey 
Producers! League at Chicago ie ar) 25. end. 26, 
Je I. Hambleton nae one of the speakers at the meeting of the Penn 
sylvania State Beekeepers! Association at Varrisburz January 2 and rag 
E. Le Sechrist will attend. a ‘seri S of beekeepers! meetings in Tennessee, 
Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri during t 
First tvo weeks in February. 

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PORESL INSECT aNVae yt gets iS 
He O Uraigheed, Ratonolnet ct in oharese 
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J. 0. Evenden attended the Western Sores stry and Conservation As sociation 
meetings at Seatile, wes December 13 and 14. Considerable interect vas 
shovn in forest insect control, par rticularly in the large Southem Oregon— 
Forthern Califomia Insect Control. I ro ject. 
This division hes continued to receive mans letters concerning the © 
Southern pine beetle outbreal: which appeers to be very widespread, covering 
the entire range of the southern pine from eastern Texas north to Virginia, 
The heaviest concentration appears to be in the Piedmont region. kKecent 
meetings of Loggins and lumbering associations in the South have devoted. 
considerable time to the discussion of this insect. 
A cooperative agreement has Juss been completed by the Minnesota 
Agricultural Experiment Station, the Lake fe tes Forest Experiment Station, 
end the division of Forest Insect investigetions. Dr. S. A. Grahem, Assistant 
Professor in Forestry, will be in charge of forest insect investigations in 
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