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Doctor Ls.0,  Hivrands left sf etait onde) May 29 for an extended trip to the 
Pacific Coasts He expects to arrive at Seattle, Wash.,,.on June 2, Portland, 
Oreg., on the 5th, and at San Francisco, Calif., on the 8th. While in Seattle 
and Portland he plans to confer with those carrying on work against the Euro- 
pean earwig and with Federal, State, and station entomologists in Washington 
and Oregon. At Portland, he will also confer with Walter Carter, who has 
charge of the Bureau's investigations of the sugarbeet leafhopper. In Califor- 
nia, stops will be made at San Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton, Lake Tahoe, 
Los Angeles, Pasadena, Alhambra, Riverside, and the Escondido Valley for con- 
ferences with entomolozists,: quarantine inspectors, and others. He will attend 
the scientific meetings in Oakland, the mecting of the Pacific Coast Entomol- 
ogical Society, ‘and the mecting of the American Association of Economic Entomol- 
ogists at Berkcley » delivering an address at the. last on "Insects and Human 
Progress," and ia 1st also make an address before the Commonwealth Club of 
California. While in the Escondido Valley he will investigate the silk culture 
that. is being carried on piecing 
Leaving San Francisco on the return eye about July 7, he expects to 
visit the Burcau'’s laboratories at Salt Lake City, Utah, Billings, Mont., and 
Monroe , Mich,, and will, before. returning to Washington, £0 to Ontario, Canada, 
for conferences with entomologists at Kingston, Toronto, and Ottawa, With 
special reference to the introduction and establishment of parasites of the 
Baropean corn borer. 
DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
fae i. Quaintance, Ansoarabesthieaios Bureau, in Charge. 
BE. J. Newcomer; in connection with his trip to the Kennewick, Wash. , 
apple district, addressed the fruit growers on codling moth control. 
of peach insect investigations at Fort. Valley 
Ga., writes that shipments the Georgia peach crop, estimated to be the 
largest in’ the: history of~ tee industry, have begun... There are very few signs. 
of curculio. This insect appears to be under complete control, as a result 
of control activities since the unprecedented outbreak in 1920. Mr. Snapp 
recently made a hurried trip. throughout the southern part of the peach belt 
for the purpose of making: observations on ‘the oriental main moth, 
a0.cls Snapp; in ee 
