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Before retuming to WYashington Mr . Walton also visited Douglas, Wyo., 
| and Billings, Mont., in company with Stewart Lochye> od, expert in grasshepper 
control, for. the purpose of visv@lizice grasshopper eraditions in these rex 
gions, “Was i@ at Donslas they attended an informal meting cf Wroring exten- 
sicn eae: rs and farm burcau men in order to secure the viows of State work 
€rs regarding the egzasshopper Saag A moverent was Ee ues to secure 
the enaction of a pest-control or grasshopper law similar so shat in effect 
in Nersh Dakota, Such legislation has brought exceliens results there and 
elsewhere. 

FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Entcmologist in Charge 
Dr. W. A. Orton and W. W. Gilbert of the Bureau of Plant Industry 
and Prof, J. B. S. Norton of the Maryland College of Agriculture visited 
the Japanese Beetie Iaboratory, Riverton, N. J., early in the month, to- 
gether with several otnsr pathologists attending the recent field confer- 
ence of phytopathologisits. 
Prof. W. H, Brittain of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College also 
Spent a day recently at the Japanese Beetie Laboratory. 
Recent preliminary examinations for the presence of Japanese beetle 
larvae in fields in the vicinity of the laboratory show a heavy increase 
in the number of grubs compared with the number present a year ago this 
time, in some cases runing as high as 100 per cent or more increase. It 
is expected that the regular grub survey to be made a little later in the 
fail will show a general increase in density of grub infestation throughout 
the infested territory as a whole. 
A serious injury to a number of the greens in local golf courses, as 
a result of the abundance of Japanese bectie lervac, has been found. The 
greens offer ideal facilities for ege depositions by the beevie during the 
season, and it is quite apparent that the effect of these heavy egg depositions 
Will be serious, possibly necessitating the rebuilding of infested greens, 
Dr. Henry Fox and Prof. W. A. Price of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory 
force, temporary appointees during the summer, have returned to their collegiate 
duties, Dr. Fox will return to Mercers University, Maco, Ga., and Prof. 
Price will return to Purdue University, 
The following men have also left the Japanese Beetle Laboratory, either 
to accept other positions or to attend college: T. H. Frison, J. H. Painter, 
C. W. Rieman, 3rd, and G. E. Spencer, 
Recent visitors at the Federal Fruit Insect Laboratory at Sandusky, Ohio, 
include A. F. Burgess and Dr. A. C. Baker of the Bureau of Entcmology. 
