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Je M. Miller reports that an infestation of the Jeffrey pine 
Beetle of several years! standing on the Inyo National Forest has de- 
Clined this year. A fow years ago a large windfall occurred in this re- 
gi0n, several million feet of timber being blown down. This infestation 
_ developed in the blow-downs, and attacked green timber, but soon lost 
its momentum after the dying timber from the windfalls was no longer 
. Mveitabic, 
Surveys of the California-Oregon control project area, conducted 
by BP. P. Keen during the recent summer, show the heaviest losses of the 
Tast 10 years. In 1927 more than 450,900,000 feet of timber was killed. 
Private owners in this region are very much disturbed, and it is probable 
that &@ great deal of control work will be carried on during the coming 
Winter and spring, 
Ha J. MacAloney reported for duty August 25, after a three months! 
Be on. gh. During this period he was working in Genaay under: Dre tie 
‘Swaine, of the Dominion Entomological Branch, on the white-pine weevil, 
the problem to which he is assigned in the New England States. This serv- 
ice was part of a cooperative wba ment between the Dominion Entomologi- 
eal Branch and this Bureau to undertexe jointly the investigation of this. 
Serious pest cf white pine. 
Dr. M. W. Blackman returned September 1 to the New York State Col- 
‘lege of Forestry, at Syracuse University. He had been with the Bureau as 
Bpecialist in Scolytidae for the preceding 15 months, enzeged in biological 
Studies of the Black Hills beetle on the Kaibab and Colorado National For. 
ests. 
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DaCL DUOUS-FRUIT INSECT. INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Associate Chief of Bureau, in Charge 
G. F. Moznette, in charge of the Bureau's pecan insect laboratory 
at Albany, Ga., attended the twenty-sixth Annual Convention of the Na- 
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bionéel Pecan Grovers' Association, held at Shreveport, La., September 27, 
me, and 29, and delivered an address on "Factors which enter into the 
Successful Control of the Pecan Nut-Case Bearer," 
Oliver I. Snapp, in charge of veach-insect investigations, writes. 
Ghat Demetrio D. de.Torres, of Madrid, Spain, wno for a pre ar has been 
Studying entomology in this sin see spent. four days in August at the 
ypeach-inusect laboratory at Fort Valley, Ga., to odserve eae FORAY ander 
a yay and to ecquaint himself with methods employed in controlling peach 
insects. 
Herold Compere, an entomologist at the Citrus Experiment Station 
of the University of California, Riverside, Calif., visited the Honolulu °* 
station of the Bureau on August 5. Mr. Compere was on his way for an ex- 
tended stay in Australia in search of beneficial insects. 
