road rolling stock or of ships used in transporting flour froin the United State: 
to other countries. Realizing the shortcomings of such a procedure, interested 
parties have been seeking a plan the operation of which would place full in- 
formation in the hands of both the exoorting miller and the insuring company. 
At first it was thovgnt that some system of Federal inspection and certifica- 
tion might prove satisfactory. But the newly formed Millers! Hxport Inspection 
Bureau seems far more practical. Entomologists will be interested in imowing 
that Prof. George A. Dean will serve as Consulting Entomologist for the Millers: 
. Export Inspection Bureau, and that the expenses of this newly formed Bureau 
will include not only the salaries of Messrs. Lane and Lightburne, insurance 
Specialists, the incidental cost of inspection of flour at Galveston and Net 
_Orleans, and clerk hire and other office items, but also the salary of an 
entomologist. The duties of this official will be to keep the Bureau thoroughly 
informed regarding all. phases of entomology that may in any way affect its 
business. His princival work undoubtedly will be the periodic inspection of 
flour mills and checking wp on the control measures found necessary to put the 
mills:in the best possible condition. 
TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. E. Graf, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
J. E. Graf returned to Washington on March 14, from a field inspec- 
tion trio which included most of the far western and southern leooratories. 
J. N. Tenhet was transferred March 5 from Clarksville, Tenn., to 
Chadbourn, N. C. 
L. W. Brannon returned to Birmingham, Ala., March 16, from his tem- 
porary assignment with the Federal Horticultural Board, scouting for the 
pink bollvworm, 
F. W. Poos,. entomologist of the Virginia Truck Experiment Station, 
Worfolk, Ve., visited this division on March 16 to discuss studies on tne 
potato tuber moth which he is conducting for the State of Virginia. 
“alter Carter, Twin Falls, Idaho, visited points in Oregon and Cali- 
fornia about the middle of March, conferred with Experiment Station officials 
and others regarding the sugar-beet leafhopper, and made preliminary plans 
for undertaking work in Oregon on this pest. 
N. F. Howard, associate entomologist, and D. M. DeLong, professor 
of entomology, Ohio State University, and a collaborator of this divs 
recently left Columbus, Ohio, to visit points in the southeastern United 
States to study bean insects. 
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W., H. White left Washington March 23, for Sanford, Fla., to discuss 
the celery leaf-tyer investigations there with Messrs. Ball, Boyden, and 
Stone. En route to Washington, Mr. White expects to visit Chadbourn, N. C., 
to confer with Messrs, Thomas-and Reid about the work in progress at that 
place on the strawberry weevil and the seed corn rmagzot. 
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