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} D, K. Grady wrote in June commending the work of W. D. Reed and 
Perez Simmons in connection with the present campaign to’ reduce insect in- 
festation among fruits, particularly figs. The California Dried Fruit Asso- 
ciation staged a "Clean-up Week," beginning June 20, and in preparation of 
an official bulletin to the Association membership Messrs. Simons and Reed 
rendered considerable assistance. These gentlemen attended meetings of 
packers and growers at San Jose on June 15, and at Fresno on June 16. 
George W. Ellington has sent Alvah Peterson, at Riverton, WN. J-, - 
wheat infested with the Angoumois grain moth, with information regarding a 
satisfactory method for securing in quantity the eggs of this pest of stored’ 
products. Mr. Peterson will endeavor to use thé eggs of the Angoumois grain 
moth as a constant host supply for Trichogramma ‘minutum, ‘an important para- 
‘site of the Oriental peach moth. te | bi 

CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. 4H. Larrimer, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
W. E. Haley, of the New Orleans, La., laboratory, attended a confer- 
ence of the entomologists of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississipp1, held at 
Vicksburg on June 1 to consider possible damage from cutworms following the 
river floods. po eS . my 
Early in June J. W. Ingram, also of the New Orleans laboratory, in’ 
spected rice fields in Missouri and Illinois for insect damage and also 
visited a former rice-growing district of South Carolina, Passing through 
Washington, he called at various offices of the Bureau.’ | ‘ 
V. R. Walton spent June 13 to 20 with D. J. Caffrey, inspecting the 
research work and results of the clean-up work in the Lake Erie region. 
In the first week of June C. M. Packard, in charge of the West Lafay- 
ette, Ind., laboratory, visited the Carlisle, Pa., and the Washington offices, 
for consultation with respect to Hessian fly work. He later made a trip into ~ 
the States of Tennessee and Alabama, alsd in connection with this work. , : 
C, N. Ainslie, in charge of the Sioux City, Iowa, laboratory, re- 
cently made a trip into western North Dakota and eastern Montana in connection 
with his field activities. . 
On, June 17 T, E.. Holloway, in charge of the New Orleans laboratory, 
attended a meeting of sugar planters and others, held at’ Baton Rouge to con- 
sider airplane dusting of sugar cane with sodium fluosilicate. 
HL D. Smith, of the Carlisle, Pa., laboratory, spent the greater por- 
tion of June in Georgia and other southern States, making a survey of the — 
distribution of the Hessian fly. 
