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STORED-PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
E. A. Back, in Charge 
Gilbert A. Schenk, Associate Entomologist, who has been con- 
ducting at Manhattan, Kans., the bureau's work on flour-mill insects, 
resigned his position April 39, to engage in the commercial manufac-— 
ture of fumigants, with headquarters at Kansas City. 
A business firm in California has recently written to A. 0. Larson, 
of the field laboratory for dealing with bean weevils, at Modesto, Calif., 
"Please permit me to congratulate you and your able assistant, Mr. Fisher, 
in the splendid work that your office has been doing in the control of 
bean weevil in this country. We have not received even one complaint or 
rejection from purchasers of beans on account of weevil this past season 
and we deem this entirely due to your method for control at harvesting. 
Many San Francisco dealers advise us the same experience. With the co- 
operation, this coming season, of San Joaquin and Merced Counties we look 
for much less evidence of the pest. Both of you gentlemen must have 
exercised considerable diplomacy to hold the good wil? of the growers 
and the assistance of warehousemen and dealers. Let the good work pro- 
ceed." 

BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I. Hambleton, in Charge 
Miss Malitta D. Fischer, of the American Honey Institute, Indian-— 
apolis, Ind., visited the Bee Culture Laboratory on April 1 to 3. 
W. D. Achord, of Findlay, Ohio, and Fitzpatrick, Ala., one of the 
pioneer breeders of bees in combless ‘packages, and a queen breeder of 
note, while on his way from the South to Ohio visited the laboratory 
April 26, to discuss methods of shipping bees and the standardization of 
combless packages. 
Richard B. Gregg, of Chestnut Hill, Mass.,. formerly of Simla 
Hills, India, was a recent visitor at the laboratory. He has been suc— 
cessful in the difficult task of importing Italian bees from England 
into India. Since his return from India, however, he has received word 
that these bees have been destroyed by predatory wasps or hornets, a 
serious pest to bees in India. Mr. Gregg said that the production of 
honey in India is very small, because the native hive bee (Apis indica) 
stores only a few pounds of honey per colony. In order to increase the 
production of honey there he is anxious to introduce the bee Apis mel- 
Pir Loa. 
