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A. FP. Satterthwait, of the Missouri laboratory, spent a portion of the 
month of July in field work in Towa. During this period he made insect collec~ 
tions in the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, near Leke Okoboji. En route to his 
official headquarters he visited the Iowa: laboratory. : 
Dr. W. H. Larrimer was in attendahce at a conference of workers on the 
control of the European corn vorer, held July 22 at Sandusky, Ohio. <A revision 
of clean-up regulations was discussed, On his way to Sandusky Dr.. Larrimer 
stopped at Columbus, Ohio, to consult with officials of the State Department 
of Agriculture and of the State University, and on his return trip he visited 
the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, at Wooster. 
W. R. Walton, of the Washington office, L..H.-Worthley,. Ds. Je, Calirey. 
and other members of the corn borer staff, attended the European Corn Borer 
Conference held at Sandusky, Ohio, on July 22, 
It has been decided to keep in the Washington office, beginning July 
1, a vile of separates of all publications prepared by each member of the staff 
/ in the section of Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations. The usefulness of 
such a file is quite obvious, and all members of the field force are earnestly 
requested to send two separates of each of their publications, both technical 
and popular, for inclusion in this file. Those published in outside periodi- 
Cals are especially requested. 

W. E. Haley has recently been at Crowley, La., where with J. W. Ingram 
he has been carrying on experiments with various poisons against the sugar 
cane moth borer. 
The Daily Argosy, a newspaper of British Guiana, prints an article by 
the entomologist, H. W. B. Moore, on the estimate of the loss due to the sugar 
cane moth borer in Lovisiana, made by the Sugar Cane Insect Laboratory in 
cooperation with the Bureau of Agriculturai Economics, The moth borer is a 
pest in British Guiana as well as in the United States, 
T. He Holloway recently spent several weeks in Florida receiving tach= 
Inid parasites from Cuba for release in -sugar cane fields. H. K. Plank, of 
the Tropical Plant Research Foundation, has been sending the tachinid to De-= 
partment and State officials in Florida, and more recently he has sent an 
ichneumonid for release in Louisiana. Both parasites attack the sugar cane 
moth borer. 
He D. Smith, of the Carlisle, Pa., Laboratory, recently returned from 
a survey of the wheategrowing regions in central and northern New York for the 
_ Hessian fly and wheat stem sawflies. 
