STORED-PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
E. A. Back, Entomologixt, in Charge 
A. 0, Larson spent the first week of May in Stanislaus and Merced 
Counties, Calif., conferring with bean-weevil committees and holding Farm 
Bureau meetings at Hughson, Denair, Mitchell, and Tegner. About 200 growers 
attended the meeting at Hughson. Studies of the samples taken fr ‘om Last 
year's crops, made by Larson and Fisher and supplemented by the warehouse 
reports of this section, have aroused the growers to a realization that if 
they suffer loss it is largely their om fault, On May 14 and 15 Mr. Larson 
made an ins spection of the bean warehouses in Orange and San Diego Counties, 
and was pleased to find that although the quantity of beafls held in storage 
was unusually large they were remarkably free from weevils. 
W. D. Reed, of the Dried Fruit Insect Laboratory at Fresno, Calif., 
spent a portion of May in Washington for conference and for library work, 
Qn May 22, Dr. R. T. Cotton fumigated a portion of a large woolen 
factory in Philadelphia, 
Perez Simmons has been elected a Fellow of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science. 
.. On May 15 Dr. Back was present by invitation as an obgerver at the 
fumigation of a large cigar factory at Charleston, S. C., where 2,200 pounds 
of powdered calcium cyanide was used. | 
JAPANESE BEETLE INVESTIGATIONS 
Loren B, Smith, Entomologist, in Charge 
N. A. Vappula, Entomologist, representing the Finnish Government 4 
Agricultural Institute, spent several days in May at the Japanese Ecetle 
Laboratory, Riverton, N, J,, looking over the various phases of control and 
investigational work, 
H. F. Willard, Entomologist, in charge of the Bureauts field labora= 
tory at Honolulu, Hawaii, visited the Japanese Beetle Laboratory on May 13 
to confer in regard to the parasite work. 
Dr. A. L. Quaintance, accompanied by L. B. Smith, recently visited 
New Haven, Conn., to investigate the Asiatic beetle situation. In company 
with Dr, W: E. Britton and Director Slate, he examined the infected terri- 
tory and made observations on the control work, end other work under ways 
