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Bureau's film, "Fighting Western Pine Beetles," which caused considerable 
interest and many comments. One lumber company in Alabama reported a 
loss of 5,000,000 feet of pine through the destructive work of the south- 
ern pine beetle in 1923. 
Following the meeting. above mentioned, the Bureau's laboratory 
of the Deciduous Fruit and Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Insect Investi- 
gations was visited by Mr. St. George in company with W. D. Whitcomb. 
Some very interesting work is being done there relating to the biology 
and control of the camphor scale. 
From October 23 to 30 Mr. St. George spent considerable time in the 
vicinity of Vicksburg, Miss., at the logging operations of the Houston 
Brothers Lumber Company, where cooperative experiments were being conducted 
to determine the best time of the year to deaden cypress. 
In the Monthly Letter for last July mention was made of a series of 
motion pictures taken under Mr. St. George's supervision, showing methods 
of handling pine to prevent worm-hole injury, cutting cypress to prevent 
borer attack, and cther work of the kind. ‘The series has now been com- 
pleted with scenes taken at Vicksburg, Miss., and Owensboro, Ky. 
SOUTHERN FIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. L. Webb, Associate Entomologist, Acting in Charge 
W. E. Dove, who has been collaborating with Dr. J. L. Kirby-Smith 
of Jacksonville, Fla., in an investigation of the causative agent of a 
creeping eruption on the skin of human beings, is now in Washington and 
is collaborating with Dr. G. F. White in a study of microscopic material. 
it is strongly suspected that the causative agent is a mite. 
. B. R. Coad, Elmer Johnson, and F. W. NeDuff, of the Boll Weevil 
Field Station at Talluiah, La., visited Washington during the month to 
confer with various officials in regard to phases of the work of the field 
station. 
: Plans are being formulated at the Sugarcane Insect Field Station 
in New Orleans for the operation of an isolated sugar plantation next 
season under direction of Bureau agents. Uxperiments in control of the 
sugarcane moth-borer are to be conducted. 
