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By invitation of Director G. H. Hecke, of the California State 
Department of Agriculture, dated November 15, Perez Simmons has become 
a member of the "California Clean-Up Committee," an organization for 
dealing with pests affecting the fig industry. E. A. McGregor, in charge 
of the field laboratory at Lindsay, Calif., for the study of citrus 
insects, and W. S. Ballard, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, who is 
located at Fresno, are other representatives of the Department of Agri- 
culture on this committee. W. C. Jacobsen, of the Bureau of Plant Quaran— 
tine and Pest Control of the California State Department of Agriculture, 
is chairman, and John W. Guyler, of the Advisory Board, California Peach 
and Fig Growers, Inc., is secretary of the committee. The University of 
California is represented by Ira J. Condit, Associate in Subtropical 
Horticulture, Agricultural Experiment Station, Leroy B. Smith, Assistant 
State Leader (southern counties), Extension Service, and Ralph E. Smith, 
Head of the Division of Plant Pathology. Other members of the committee 
are Fred P. Rouillard, Horticultural Commissioner, Fresno County, Frank 
R. Brann, Horticultural Commissioner, Tulare County, Dwight K. Grady, 
Secretary of the Dried Fruit Association of California, Ward B. Minturn, 
President of the California Peach anid Fig Growers, Inc., 0. G. Brundage, 
fruit grower, and W. W. Bacon, Supe.intendent of the Forkner Fig Gardens. 
Up to November 20 A. O. Larson and C. K. Fisher, of the field 
laboratory at Modesto, Calif., and their assistants, handled during 
the bean harvest just ended, in and about Modesto, 3,177 samples of 
beans, sent them for inspection. During the harvest of 1927 they handled 
1,967 such samples. The greater amount of work in this line in the present 
season is indicative of the increasing sentiment among bean growers in 
favor of the present method of control. 
A. 0. Larson attended a convention of the California Horticul- 
tural. Commissioners, recently held at Riverside, and gave a talk on 
bean wesvils and their control. E. T. Hamlin, Horticultural Commis-— 
sioner of Stanislaus County, Calif., discussed the part his organiza— 
tion has played in the campaign for the suppression of the bean wee- 
vil, in which the Bureau of Entomology and the California State and 
County representatives are cooperating. 
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reported only from Washington, D. C., but large numbers of this pest 
were found recently in house furnishings on their arrival in Chicago, 
after they had been stored for a considerable time in Washington. The 
incident is of interest as indicating how easily these insects may be 
carried from one part of the country to another. 
