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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. H. Larrimer, Senior waits ye an ae 
W. A. Baker, of the Dallas, Texas A SI os was ticen steel on 
October 1 to the corn-borer investigations at Arlington, Mass. s 
R. Ae Blanchard, formerly of the Webster Groves, Mo., laboratory, — 
has been appointed Assistant Entomologist, pending certification, and as~_ 
signed to the Monroe, Mich., corn-borer laboratory. 
Qn October 21 a large delegation of farmers, county agricultural. 
advisers, and officials of the Michigan State College inspected the corn= Be 
borer work in progress at the Monroe, Mich., laboratory. Special groups 
from various counties in the State visited the laboratory in September and 
October. Dr. Lluginbill, in charge, has given a number of lectures on the 
corn borer to high schools in southeastern Michigan and to ihe Lenawee 
County Grange. 
During September and October the ME Denae Tone ‘of introduced para- 
sites Exeristes roborator and Habrobracon brevicornis were continued in Ohio, 
Michigan, and Indiana, ‘These parasites were reared at the Monroe laboratory. 
_L. He Patch, of the Sandusky, Ohio, corn-borer laboratory, reports. 
that the annual field survey on 179 cornfields, representing the older por- 
tion of the infested area of Ohio, showed an average increase of infestation 
slightly exceeding 400 per cent, as compared with a similar survey in the 
same or near-by fields in 1925. Similar results are anticipated for the 
annual comparative surveys in western New York and southeastern Michigan, — 
when these surveys are completed. 
In September and early October a series of field meetings. and demon- 
strations were conducted in western New York, in which H. NM. Bartley, of 
the Silver Creek, N. Y., corn-borer laboratory, cooperated with Assistant 
Commissioner C. P. Norgord of the N. Y. Conservation Commission. These meet- 
ings were attended by large groups of. farmers and county agents, as well as 
by representatives of large canning companies and manufacturers of farm ma-. 
chinery. The new low-cutting attachments for two Hynes of corn binders were 
demonstrated. 
H. Ne Bartley, of the Silver Creek, N. Y., corn-borer laboratory, 
reports an average infestation by the corn borer of 24.8 per cent of the ears 
of sweet corn delivered to three canning factories at Irving, Forestville, 
and Silver Creek, Ne Y., during the season of 1926, « 
Beginning in mid-October, foreign importations of parasite material 
from the parasite laboratory at Hyeres, France, have been received at the 
Arlington, Mass., laboratory. These importations will continue throughout 
the autumn: and winter. - The material will be held for liberation and breeding 
work in the > Spring of 1927, 
