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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. H. Larrimer, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
Importations of European corn borer parasites for this winter are 
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— well under way. More than 45,000 cocoons of Microgaster tibialis Nees have 
been collected in northern France, and some 84,000 borers are on hand from 
which four species of parasites may be reared. 
die Donald S. LaCroix, a graduate of Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
has been given a probationary appointment as Junior Entomologist, for duty on 
_ Corn Borer Investigations at Sandusky, Ohio. 
‘Profs"G..W..McCuen and Bx A; Silver, of ‘Ohio State University, L. B. 
Thatcher and John McClure, of the Ohio Experiment Station, Dr. 0. R. Neis- 
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wander, FE: G. Kelsheimer, and J. B. Polivka, of the Ohio Corn Borer Laboratory, 
and Maurice R. Myers, County Extension Agont for Erie County, Ohio, called at 
tae Sandusky Laboratory November 23, to observe the ficld operation of the 
combination corn harvester, husker, and shredder, being developed for the fight 
against the corn borer. — 
George I. Reeves, in. charge of the Sait Lake City Laboratory, visited 
Washington in the latter part of Novenber for consultation and library work 
relating to a new Farmers! Bulletin on.the alfalfa weevil. This work will 
continue for a few days in December. . 
mre G. TL. Chrigtie. Director of the Indiana Agricultural Experiment 
“Station, Lafayette, Ind., was in Washington during the week of November 15, and 
_ Galled at this office to confer on the program for corn borer control. 

BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I: Hambleton, Apiculturist, in Charge 
o rrot. E, F. Phillips, of Cornell University, was a visitor at the Bee 
Culture Laboratory early in November. . 
E. L. Sechrist spent November 4 and 5 in New York City, to instruct the 
Inspection Service..there, of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, in the use of 
‘the new . Mey-grading regulations... -... 
The new. Intermountain Bee-Culture Field Station at Laramic, Wyo., is 
quartered temporarily in.the office of. the Department of Entomology of the Uni- 
versity of Wyoming. ‘The University will furnish independent quarters after the 
beginning of next year. ae ae et 
The tunnels of the bee Nouse, Braula coeca, were discovered in capped 
n October at the Bee Culture Laboratory, at Somerset, Md., by W. J, Nolen. 
4n infestation of Braula coeca had already been discovered by V. N. Argo in an 
aplary at College Park, Md., in 1925.\ Mr. Argo was tempofarily omploycd by this 
cffice during the spring and early summer of 1926 t9 investigate the life his- 
tory of this Crganism. These two places are the most southern points at which 
Braula coeta has thus far been authentically reported in the United States. 
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