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-" HOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
Me f. C. Craighead, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
On October 29 R. A. St.George visited the firm of Carl Stossel enn. 
Sons, located at Front Royal, Va., to bring to a close an experiment relative 
to the submergence of hickory, oak, and‘ash wood in water, to prevent sub- 
sequent attack by Lyctus -powder-post beetles. By following practices recon 
mended by this Bureau, this firm, which nakes mallets, mauls, etc., has in the — 
past three years been able to reduce insect injury caused to green and seasonet 
“Stock from its former magnitude of 15 to 90 per cent to only 1 or 2 per cent. 

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Novenber 8 to 11 William Middleton visited the Willow Grove laboratory 
of the Pennsylvania State Bureau of Plant ‘Industry, ‘#0 confer with Mr. Floyd 
saith on experinental work for the control of the box leaf miner. Punigated 
plots of box belonging to-the Andorra Nursery were examined, “ane iets aa 
Tents were outline | 
JAPANESE BEETLE INVESTIGATIONS 
Loren B. Smith, Entomologist, in Charge 
4 new Japanese Beetle quarantine office was recently opened at 42 
West First Street, Mount Vernon, N. J. This office supervises matters re- 
lating to the recent extension of the regulated area in New York and Connecti- 
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H. A. Jaynes and @. R. Gardner have left their respective stations in- 
China and Japan and are now en route to this country. Both Mr. Jaynes and 
Mr. Gardner were formerly stationed at the Japanese Beetle Laboratory, and | 
have been in foreign service for the past three years, engagedin collecting 
and shipping parasites of the Japanese beetle to this country. Mr.,Jaynes is 
expected at Riverton after the beginning of the year, and Mr. Gardner, will 
probably arrive early in Decenber. hala | re, 
__ R. J. Sin, of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory staff, recently inspected 
a conifer nursery in Rhode Island which showed a heavy infestation of scara- 
bacid grubs. These proved to be a Phyllophaga species, the adults of which hat 
been attracted in great numbers to this locality by the lights of a near-by 
house which was gone distance away from any other habitation, : 
Large ‘shipments of pimed insects collected in China by H. A.- Jaynes 
have been arriving at the Japanese Beetle Laboratory for the past several weeks. 
Many undescribed species are included in the collection, | ' ait nil 
P. H. Worsinger, Agent, who has been in charge of. the treatment work __ 
1n connection with the enforcement of the Japanese beetle quarantine for the ; 
past year, recent] 
“ y resigned to assume charge of a nursery near Holmesbure, 
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