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During the period June 2 to 5 the joint meetings of the North 
Carolina and American Forestry Associations were held in Asheville, N. C. 
The work of the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station and its coopera-— 
tors was reviewed by the Appalachian Forest Research Council, approved, 
and certain resolutions passed to aid in furthering this work. As a 
part of the program, the results obtained from studies of the southern 
pine beetle during the past five years were briefly outlined by the 
station leader. The Council, among other resolutions, passed one re—- 
lating to the cooperators in Forest Pathology and Forest Entomology, 
requesting additional funds for personnel and experimental work being 
done at Asheville. 
Ralph W. Caird, Field Assistant, from the University of Michi- 
gan, a Pack Fellowship student, arrived at the Asheville, N. C., lab— 
oratory on June 8 to conduct some physiological studies in connection 
with trees attacked by the southern pine beetle. 
The effects of new chemicals in killing broods of the southern 
pine beetle in recently attacked trees and their efficacy in preserving 
poles from subsequent insect and fungus attack are being noted at the 
Asheville, N. C., field laboratory. Normal pine, oak, and hickory trees 
nave also been injected by the saw-kerf method to determine the possibil- 
ities of this manner of preserving poles and small stock from attack by 
insects. Such stock is used for the manufacture of rustic furniture and 
for the construction of log cabins. The studies are being conducted by 
R. A. St.George, assisted by Ralph W. Caird, B. J. Huckenpahler, Noel 
Wygant, and Lyall Peterson. 
R. A. St.George and B. J. Huckenpahler are also engaged in ser- 
ies of treatments of tulip trees to determine which method is most ef-— 
fective in causing the rapid drying of the wood, without injury, and 
at the same time preventing or eliminating most ambrosia beetle damage. 
The treatment consists of girdling and of felling trees. A part of the 
felled trees were limbed, the rest had their branches left intect. A 
Similar study is being conducted at Bogalusa, La., in cooperation with 
the Southern Forest Experiment Station and the Office of Forest Pathology, 
Bureau of Plant Industry, located at New Orleans, La. In this instance 
sweet gum is the species of wood being used. 
R. Wooldridge, of the gipsy moth and brown-tail moth laboratory; 
Melrose Highlands, Mass., reports that most of the damage he has seen 
from the brown-tail moth was in southern New Hampshire. He also re- 
ports heavy feeding by the satin moth on a few willows at Fitchburg, 
Mass. Other members of the staff have noted defoliation in New Hamp- 
shire, northeastern Massachusetts, and Maine, it being most general in 
southeastern New Hampshire and in Maine near the coast. The feeding of 
the satin moth is more pronounced on willows than on poplars. 
Judging by observations made by members of the gipsy moth lab-— 
oratory, and by reports received at the laboratory, southeastern Mass— 
achusetts is the only section of New England where there were areas 
seriously defoliated by the gipsy moth this year. 
