a Girees 
Carlton Burnside, who has been engaged in a study-of the intestinal 
flora in the honeybee, has resigned his temporary appointment to resume 
eraduate study at the University of Michigan. 
CEREAL AND FORAGH INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
G. A. Dean, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
The entomological laboratory at Ritzville, Wash., in charge of M. C. 
Lane, has been moved to Toppenish, Wash., a location believed to be more 
advantageous for the cooperative studies on the wireworms injurious to 
potatoes, wheat, and other crops. 
C. N. Ainslie, Entomologist, in charge of the Sioux City laboratory, 
who has been making a study of the new infestation of the Hessian fly in the 
northwestern part of North Dakota, is plamning a trip to northeastern Mon- 
tana, where he will confer with Dr. J. R. Parker, of the Montana Experiment 
Station, concerning the new infestation of the Hessian fly in that State. 
Prof. Geo. 4. Dean returned to Washington September 16 from an ex- 
tensive trip to several of the entomological laboratories of this Division, 
located in the Northwestern, Central, and Southern States. While in the 
Northwest he attended the conference of the Northwest International Com- 
mittee on Farm Pests, held at Montana Agricultural College, Bozeman, August 
e? end 28. Professor Dean reports a decided improvement in the grasshopper 
Situation in the Northwestern States. The loss by grasshoppers during the 
past season has been very much less than that of the yeers 1922 and 1923. 
He also reports splendid results by the entomologists of the Billings, 
Mont., laboratory in the control of the Mormon cricket with the poisoned 
bran mash and by the entomologists of the Salt Lake City laboratory in the 
control of the alfalfa weevil with arsenical dust. 
Stewart Lockwood and F. W. Boyd, of the Billings, Mont., laboratory, 
attended the conference of the Northwest International Committee on Farm 
Pests, held at Bozeman August 27 and 28. 
, Samel Blum, Junior Entomologist, of the Columbia, S. C., laboratory, 
resigned October 3. J. C. Shiver, a graduate of the South Carolina Agri- 
cultural College, who has been engaged in entomological work with the Gipsy 
Moth Laboratories at Melrose Highiands, Mass., has been appointed to fill 
the vacancy. Mr. Shiver reported for his new duty September 29. 
L. H. Worthley, in charge of the European Corn Borer Control, and 
Poul Caffrey, in charge of the Arlington, Mass., laboratory, spent several 
weeks in August and September inspecting the Huropean corn borer situation 
sa New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan. They report that the corn 
borer is not only mach more widely distributed in northern Ohio and south- 
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