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On October 31 Messrs. Collins, Hood, Schaffner, and Smulyan, all 
of this laboratory, attended a conference of entomologists at Hartford, 
Conn, An interesting program had been arranged, including discussions 
of the more important insect problems of New England. 
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STORED—PRODUCT INSECTS 
E. A. Back, in Charge 
Wallace Colman, formerly of the Food, Drug and Insecticide Admin-— 
istration, was appointed Associate Entomologist July 21, 1930, and as— 
Signed to an investigation of household insects, with headquarters at 
Sligo, Md. 
During the month of October an elevator in the vicinity of Nor- 
folk, Va., fumigated over 1,500,000 bushels of wheat with the ethylene 
Oxide-carbon dioxide mixture, as an assurance against trouble by in- 
sects. Doctors Back and Cotton visited this elevator on October 3 and 
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From September 19 to October 14 over 31,000,000 pounds of tobac— 
GO were fumigated in the vicinity of Richmond, Va. The fumigation work 
was conducted under the supervision of W. D. Reed, assisted by Messrs. 
‘Cotton, Livingstone, Ellington, and Good, of this division. 
Between October 8 and October 16 A. Q. Larson visited the field- 
pea growing region about Pullman. Wash., and Moscow, Idaho. While in 
Moscow he gave an informal talk before a convention of local pea grow-— 
ers on the results of his studies during the past summer among the pea 
fields of the Willamette Valley, and, with Prof. C. C. Wakeland he 
visited a number of plantations to collect data on infestation of shat— 
tered seed. 
At the request of the federally owned Inland Waterways Corpora— 
tion, Dr. R. T. Cotton lefti Washington October 19 for Cairo, Ill., where 
he made a study of insect conditions in some wheat belonging to the Fed— 
eral Farm Board. As a result of the drought, the wheat. had been stored 
in barges stranded in the Mississippi since last July. 
On October 22 Doctor Back was present at the fumigation of cars 
of wheat with the ethylene oxide-carbon dioxide mixture in Baltimore. 
J. H. Cox, of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, H. D. Young, of the 
Insecticide Division of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, and P. W. 
Edwards, of the Chemical. Engineering Division of that Bureau, were also 
present. The results were checked by Messrs. Cotton and Young on Octo- 
ber Sl. 
In October Perez Simmons accepted an invitation to become a mem— 
ber of the Agricultural Committee of the Fresno Chamber of Commerce. 

