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DECIDUOUS~FRUIT INSECTS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
Dr. B. A. Porter attended the meeting of the Massachusetts Fruit 
Growers Association, at Worcester, Mass., January 8, and discussed two 
important New England fruit insects——the plum curculio as a pest of apple, 
and the apple maggot. He also attended a meeting of fruit growers at 
Crozet, Va., January 17, in company with Prof. W. J. Schoene, and L. R. 
Cagle, A. M. Woodside, and R. H. Hurt, of the Virginia Agricultural Ex-— 
periment Station. This meeting was held for the purpose of discussing 
measures to be employed in cleaning up a severe infestation of the cur-— 
culio, which caused serious losses the previous season in the peach 
orchards in the vicinity of Crozet. 
E. J. Newcomer, in charge of the field laboratory at Yakima, Wash., 
arrived in Washington January 31, to go over plans for the coming season's 
work. While in Washington he will attend the codling moth and oriental 
peach moth conference on February 10. 
On the night of January 7 Oliver I. Snapp gave an address on "The 
present status of our knowledge of curculio control" at the thirty-—second 
annual meeting of the Maryland State Horticultural Society, in Baltimore. 
He stopped in Washington for conference before returning to his head- 
quarters at Fort Valley, Ga. 
Contributions from the Japanese—Beetle Laboratory 
On January 16 Edward Behre and H. J. MacAloney, Forest Service, 
Amherst, Mass., visited the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory to confer with 
members of the soil—insecticide division on the use of arsenate of lead 
in forest-tree seed beds, as a control for white grubs. 
On January 22 Prof. John Gray, of the University of Florida, 
visited the Laboratory. Professor Gray was interested in the work in 
general. 
On January 24 Dr. Bentley B. Fulton, Entomologist, North Carolina 
State College of Agriculture, visited the Laboratory, and was much in- 
terested in the rearing equipment of the parasite division. Doctor 
Fulton also spent some time at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia. 
R. J. Sim, Agent, spent January 22, 23, and 24 in Washington, con- 
ferring with Dr. E. A. Chapin and other coleopterists on Scarabaeid bee— 
tles. 
On January 27, 28 and 29 Dr. H. W. Allen was in Washington, com- 
piling notes on the oriental peach moth and conferring with experts 
in the United States National Museum. 
