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STORED-PRODUCT INSECTS 
E. A. Back, in Charge 
George B. Wagner, in charge of investigations of flour-mill’ in- 
sects, attended the Kansas Wheat Belt. Conference held at Wareham: Hotel, 
Manhattan, Kans., on November 9. It was there planned that Mr. Wagner 
should assist George Montgomery, of the Extension staff of the Kansas 
State Agricultural College, in the conduct of a number of grain-grading 
schools to be held in Kansas in April. 
From December 16 to December 21 George B. Wagner visited New Or- 
teans and Galveston, to make observations of conditions on docks and 
ships as affecting export flour. Dr. R. T. Cotton was with Mr.- Wagner 
in New Orleans on December 19 and 20. - si 
W. D. Reed and Austin W. Morrill, jr., of the Dried Fruit Insect 
Laboratory, have been engaged in an investigation, in California, of 
such infestations of freight cars as are likely to affect ae of 
dried fruits. 
R. T. Cotton was in Norfolk, Va., December 8 to 11, on business 
relating to the fumigation of large. wheat-storage bins. re es 
BE. A. Back and R. T. Cotton were present January 3 and 4 at an 
interesting demonstration, in Toledo, Ohio, of a mixture of ethylene 
oxide and carbon dioxide as a fumigant for wheat in large elevator bins. 
The Patterson (Calif.) Farm Bureau Center sponsored a meeting at 
the Patterson High School building on January 6, largely attended by 
bean growers, and A. 0. Larsen led a discussion on control of the bean 
weevil. 
On January 10 and li Perez. Simmons and W. D. Reed attended the 
annual meeting of the Dried Fruit Association of California,. ‘held ‘at 
Del Monte. A paper entitled "The eggs of dried fruit insects and fumi- 
gation of eggs of the Indian meal moth" was read, and ordered mimeo— 
graphed by the Association for distribution among its membership. 
&. A. Back was the guest of the National Furniture Warehousemen's 
Association at its convention held at the Edgewater Gulf Hotel, Biloxi, 
Miss., January 14 to 18. 
Perez Simmons reports that in January 32 persons visited the Dried 
Fruit Insect Laboratory. Among these were D. H. Mitchell, Plant’ Super-— 
intendent of the Deglet Noor Date Growers Association of Indio; ‘Prof. 
. J. Condit, Division of Subtropical Horticulture, University of Calif— 
ornia; A. Nadir Bey, of Turkey; C. D. Fisher, Chemist, Dried Fruit As— 
sociation of California; J. G. Brown, Chemist, Sun—Maid Raisin Growers 
Association, and C. N. Parnell, of the Pink-Bollworm Section, Plant 
Quarantine and Control Administration. 
