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C, N. Ainslie, in charge of the Sioux City, Iowa, laboratory, recently 
made an extensive trip into western North Dakota and eastern Montana to 
Study the Hessian fly, grasshopper, and cutworm conditions. 
J, R, Horton, in charge of the Wichita, Kans., fieid laboratory, has 
been cooperating with the State Extension Service of Oklahoma in an investi- 
gation of the grasshoprer outbreak in the general wicinity of Lawton, Okla. 
He has arranged to carry on e series of control. experiments in that locality. 
C, H, Gable, in charge of the San Antonio field laboratory, left his 
station in the last week in May to undertake a survey for locating 
approximately the borders of an infestation of the southwestern corn borer, 
especially in eastern New Mexico, Little is known regarding the limits of 
the infestation, although serious injury from this insect has occurred there 
during the last. few years, 
STORED-PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
BE. A, Back, Entomologist, in Charge 
William D, Reed was appointed Assistant Entomolegist May 15, 1925, and 
has been assigned to aSsist J. C. Hamlin in Dried Fruit Insect Investigations, 
with headquarters at Fresno, Calif. Mr. Reed comes to the Bureau well 
recommended by South Carolina authorities, with whom he came in touch as an 
Assistant Professor of Entomology at Clemson College. Upon his resignation 
the student body presented Mr, Reed with a silver loving cup aS a. token of 
their esteem and appreeiation of his services in connection with the student 
activities, Mr. Reed has been engaged during tlhe past two summers in graduate 
work at Cornell University and has had summer experienee at the Experiment 
Stations at Tallulah and Mound, La, 
Dr. R. T. Cotton spent May 2 in Biglerville, Pa., where a test of py 
Calcium cyanide as a fumigant of pests of flour was conducted in a bakery 
Storehouse. » 

BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I, Hambleton, Apiculturist, in Charge 
On May 9 J. I. Hambleton began work at the temporary field laboratory. 
on the eoast of Delaware to determine the effect of various weather factors 
upon the flight activities of thé honeybee during a nectar flow. Miss — 
Dorothy Bleck, washington, D. C.; Mrs. Dorothy P. Cooper, Ocean View, Del., 
and W. Adderson lynch, Ocean View, Del., are temporary helpers in this work, 
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