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Visitors at the Bee Cuiture Laboratory during January included 
the following: Jamuarty 8, Clay Lyle, representing the apiary inspection 
service of the State Plant Board of Mississippi; Jamuary 7, C. R. Cut- 
right, of the Chio Experiment Stetion at. Wooster; January e4, C. P. 
Dadant, editor of the American Bee Journal; and January <7, W. A. Bock- 
stoce and wife, from Pittsburgh, Pa. 
FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. i. Quaintance, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
A. I..Fabis, who has 
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been engaged in pecan insect invéstigations 
ownwood, Tex., has resigned 
| from the service to enter the commercial 
E. A. Adair, who hes been assisting John B. Gill in connection 
with pecan insect investigations at Thomasville, .Ga., is now temporarily 
stationed at Brownwvood, -Tex. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
G. A. Dean, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
In connection with the meeting of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science in washington curing Christmas week, an informal 
session of Federal and State Hessian fly workers was held at Central High 
School on the morning of December 31. This was attended by some 35 Fed- 
eral and State entomologists interested in this study, and a very profit- 
able and helpful discussion was held. 
A conference of Bureau entomologists interested in the study of 
fly was heid at the Bureau on Jamary 5. The greater part of 
the day was dsvoted to a round-table discussion of methods of study, and 
particularly of statistical methods as applied to the determination of 
degree of infestation. Dr. L. 0. Howard briefly addressed the conference 
concerning the attitude to be observed by the entomologists representing 
the Bureau in their contacts with the public.. The following persons were 
in attendance: L. 0. Howard, G. A. Dean, chairman, W. R. Walton, and 
-J. 5. Wade, secretary, of Washington, D. ©€.: ¢. CO. Hill, P. R. Myers .eeme 
-H. D. Smith, Carlisle, Pa:; C. N. Ainslie, Sioux City, Iowa; G. G. Ainslie, 
Enoxville, Tenn.; W. B. Cartwright, Centralia, I1l.; J. R. Horton, Wichita, 
Kans.; M. C. Lane, Toprenish, Wesh.;: W. H. Larrimer, West Lafayette, Ind. ; 
P. luginbill, Columbia, S. C.; W. J. Phillips, Charlottesville, Va:; G. TI. 
Reeves, Salt Lake City, Utah; and A. E. Satterthwait, Kirdwood, Mo. ‘ 
