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STORED FRODUCT INS 207 INVESTIGATIONS 
-E. A. Back;. ‘Entomo log ee aie ae 
Fhe- Dried Fruit ee on Gs, saa in’& letter to the 
Secretary of Agricuiture..dated January 19, 1925, advises that its Execu- 
tive Committee has appropriated an amount not to exceed $1,000 to augment 
the Federal appropriation for the study of insects attacking dried fruits. 
At the request the National Furniture Warenousemen's Associa- 
tion, Dr. E. A. Back attended its midwinter Se held at the Bon Air- 
Vanderbilt Hotel at Augusta, Ga.,.and gave a talk on the subject of stor- 
age pests. . 
On January 13 526. Ham red in field charge of Dried Fruit Insect 
Investigations, met with the Dried Fruit Association of California at the 
Commercial Club, Sen Franci isco, for the purpose: of taking pert in the 
discussion of the infestation problems. This Association embraces all 
of the dried-fruit interests of the State, including both cooperative 
associations and independent packers. . Some thirty ae were Geiss 
Mr. Hoamlin'‘s address was dir recved. principaily toward the- lines of investi- 
gation which need attention at the moment. On the ae of the same day 
Mr. Hamlin was a guest at the annual banquet of the Association. 
while in San Francisco, J. C. Hamlin conferred with E. P. Van Duzee, 
of the California Academy of. Sciences, relative to systematic work on 
Hemiptera. SIP TL 4; 
‘BEE CH EURE INVESTIGATIONS 
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James I. Eenbleton, Apiculturist, in Charge 
James I. Ha Ee Pea ad teenie of Stete beekeepers! ‘associa- 
tions at Worcester, Mess., on January 6, Canbridge, Md., January 8, and 
Harrisburg, FPa.,. January 21. Lae Jameary <2 and 23 he ettended the meetiz 
of the American Honey Producers! League in Chicago, and the meeting of the 
Chicago Northwestern Bee eee Association at the same place. He par- 
ticipated in the “short course" for beekeepers held at Cornell University, 
January <6 to 30. 
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. B. L. Sechrist attended.the meeting of the Maryland State Beekeepers! 
Association at Cambridge, on January 8,-and wes one. of the instructors dur- 
ing the short course for. beyepeners held at the North Carolina State Col- 
lege January 21 to 23. af oe 
exe gaat oliads sat iti ty Ae tins of che Tennessee Beekeepers! Agsoa- 
tiation, held at Nashville January 29-.and 30. 
