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STORED—PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
E. A. Back, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
J. C. Hamlin is completing his requirements for a doctorate at 
the University of Ohio. During this work his address will be B. & Z. 
Building, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 
At the request of C. C. Hubbard, Director of Research and Educa— 
tion, Dr. Back spoke on December 6 before the present school of the Na- 
tional Association Institute of Dyeing and Cleaning, Silver Spring, Md. 
George R. Bell and Louis R. Ogren, assistants at the dried fruit 
insect laboratory, resigned November 15 and 50, respectively. 
On November 4 Perez Simmons and W. D. Reed attended the eleventh 
annual fig institute held in Fresno. Mr. Simmons read two papers; one 
by B. J. Howard, of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, entitled "Federal 
inspection and tolerance on figs," and one by Simmons and Reed, "The 
dried-fruit beetle and its control." 
Un November 15 W. D. Reed inspected the fumigable storage bins 
in which all the figs of two prominent fig companies in California have 
been stored during the present season. No living insects were found 
in stocks treated according to directions given by the Bureau. Messrs. 
Simmons and Reed planned these bins'and had an important part in their 
installation. As considerable money was spent on their installation 
it is gratifying to the Bureau to find that bee prove aha ‘from 
a commercial standpoint. 
A. 0. Larson spent December 135 in Modesto, in search of suitable 
new quarters for the Bean Weevil Laboratory. 
The report of A. OQ. Larson and C. K. Fisher for December indi- 
cates that at the end of the third examination of about 1,700 samples 
of cowpeas, drawn officially from the leading bean warehouses in and 
about Modesto, 63.7 per cent carried infestation. 
The U. S. D. A. Clip Sheet, issued November 13 by the Press Ser- 
vice, calls the attention of the public to the fact that chests made of 
neutral wood but fitted with a solid red cedar bottom:and lined else— 
where with red cedar veneer one-twentieth of an inch thick are not de— 
pendable as moth destroyers. If you are interested in a cedar chest for 
actual protection of clothing from moths, and not primarily for looks, 
purchase a genuine red cedar chest made of three-quarter inch heartwood, 
with covers either of solid cedar or cedar veneer. This may be had in 
the natural finish, or veneered on the outside with hardwood, or lac-— 
quered to meet a color scheme. All manufacturers are selling genuine 
red cedar chests as well as veneered chests. Whatever may be the 
claims regarding their efficacy issued by the manufacturer, only a 
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