me 
robenzene in Georgia during October. There are very few peach growers here 
who will not use the material this year. Since experimental results show 
that paradichlorovenzene can ve used with safety in this latitude on 3- and 
4-year-old peach trees, the growers are taking advantage of it, and many 
3- and 4-year-old trees will be treated this year with the three-fourths 
ounce dose. One-half million pounds will be used in the Southeast this 
season," 

BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
E, F, Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge 
Dr. Robert Burri, whose work on the brood diseases of bees is well 
known and who is now director of the Dairy Experimental Station at Liebe- 
feld, Switzerland, was in Washington during the International Dairy Confer- 
ence. He reports that the work on the control of the Isle of Wight disease 
in Switzerland is progressing favorably. 
George S. Demuth, formerly of tais branch of the Bureau, was in Wash- 
ington October 11, He is now editor of Gleanings in Bee Culture. 
Dr. E. F,. Phillips recently went to New York City and Boston to con- 
sult with various workers in animal pathology regarding plans for the ex- 
tension of the bee disease investigations of the Bureau, 
TRUCK CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J, E, Graf, Entomologist Acting in Charge 
M, M, High has arrived at Gulfport, Miss., where he will be engaged 
on biological and control experiments on the Australian tomato weevil, 
Desiantha nociva Lea, The laboratory at Kingsville, Tex., has been aban- 
doned for the present. 

E, G, Smyth, who has spent several months searching for natural 
enemies of the Mexican bean beetle in Guatemala and Mexico, plans to leave 
Mexico for this country about November 10. He will stop over in Birmingham 
to discuss the parasite situation with N. F. Howard, 
J. R, Douglass, who is studying the Mexican bean beetle under western 
conditions at Estancia, N. Mex., reports that a few of the beetles were 
found in gardens about town and in alfalfa fields a short time after the 
first snow of the season, Mr. Douglass, through the cooperation of a forest 
ranger, has placed a hibernation cage on Bosque Mountain, about 25 miles 
from Estancia and at an elevation of about 10,000 fee. 
