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‘STORED-PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
BE. A. Back, Senior E Entomologist, in charge 
On June 6 W. D. Reed and Perez Simmons attended a eerie of the Co- 
ordinating Committee of the California Dried Fruit Association at Berkeley yay 
Calif. .Prof. EB. 0. Essig is Chairman of this CE and J. C. Hamlin 3 is 
the Bureau's representative. 
Hote CotLon spent June 14 in Chicago making examinations of furni- 
- ture infested by insects. Later, in Washington, a more detailed examination  — 
was made of furniture expressed to the Bureau at the Cassi betl- of the manufac: 
. turérs. : 
- J. C..‘Hamlin, Fresno, Calif., spent about three weeks in aman ine 
Washington for conference and library work. After a short vacation in. Colum- 
bus; Ohio, he will return to Fresno. 
‘The week of May 23 ushered in "Bean Weevil Control Week" in Stanislaus 
County, Calif. This was a follow-up campaign. All agricultural organizations 
and officials seemed to be behind this movement. Circulars were printed at 
the expense of the Chambers of Commerce, etc., and widely distributed. Mr. 
Silvester, Assistant County Farm Advisor, wrote Mr. Larson, of the Bean Weevil 
Investigations, "Ten thousand of the circulars have been distributed over the | 
. county. We are receiving excellent cooperation from all the folk interested ~ 
in the matter. The Turlock Irrigation District is mailing the circulars out 
with their regular bills; the Milk Produters! Association is mailing them _ 
out with their checks. The Ceres paper is placing one in each copy of this... 
week's issue, and so it goes. Bean dealers are particularly cooperative. ~ 
We"have also had printed 225 posters giving much the same material as the™ ‘Cir 
cular does. These have been placed around town and the merchants were asked 
«to talk bean weevils to their rural customers. A story on the subject is 
being given to: the County papers for every issue published this week." 
The "Blue Ribbon Information," -a printed bulletin dealing with dried. 
. fruit interests, contains in its May, 1927, issue three articles, "New Stand- 
-ards” ‘Set for Shipments of California Figs, i "Drastic Changes in Fruit Handling’ 
are Recommended," and "Rules Governing Care and Curing Fruit Given Out." 
These. three articles are all the outgrowth of insect Se eee and pure 4 
food law regulations. : By oe oe 
‘ 2 Rares Garon and. C.. K.. iMenar | had an article, Storage! ileevils Infest® 
Bean Fields," in the May 28 issue oH the Pacific Rural Press. ~ 
At the request of the Smith Storage and Transfer Company, Washington, | 
D. C., Dr. Back supervised the fumigation of their U Street establishment 
over the Memorial Day week end. 
ae The present temporary address of Perez Simmons is Hotel Fresno, Fresno, 
alif. 
C. K. Fisher attended the Reno meetings, June 22 to 24, of the Pacific 
Slope Branch of. she American Association of Economic EB Entomologists. 
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