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On February 7 W. D. Reed, of the tobacco insect laboratory, Dan— 
ville, Va., gave an informal talk before representatives of North Carolina 
tobacco companies at Greenville, N. C. Everyone was interested in the 
Ephestia elutella infestations uncovered last summer, regarding which a 
brief notice appeared in the December issue of the Journal of Economic 
Entomology. 
On January 29 A. O. Larson read a paper entitled, "A menace of 
the pea weevil to the seed industry," before a large gathering in con- 
nection with the Farm Science Short Course given January 26 to 3l, by 
the Oregon State College, Corvallis. 
In January the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station, in coop— 
eration with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, published Station 
Circular 99, "Pea weevil control in the Willamette Valley," by A. O. 
Larson, of the pea weevil laboratory. This circular briefly outlines 
the results obtained during the past season in Oregon. One of the new 
recommendations is the burning of the pea vines after threshing in- 
stead of the present practice of ploughing them under as a source of 
humus. 
Farmers' Bulletin 1655, "The control of moths in upholstered 
furniture," became available for distribution in February. This bul- 
letin mests a widespread demand for information in the warehousing and 
furniture industries. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS 
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge 
Philip Luginbill, C.H. Batchelder, ©. Ly Simanton- sc aa Bottger, 
and V. F. Kent, of the corn borer research investigations, participated 
in a conference on insecticides at Wooster, Ohio, on February 20. 
G. I. Reeves, in charge of the Salt Lake City field laboratory, 
Spent the latter half of February in consultation with Bureau officials 
in Washington. 
Elmer W. Beck has been appointed Junior Entomologist, and assigned 
to the sublaboratory at Monroe, Mich. 
Dr. C. L. Marlatt and F. C. Bishopp visited the New Orleans field 
laboratory on February 27. 
A seven-room laboratory building has been constructed at Houma, 
La., by the American Sugar Cane League. This is rented jointly by the 
Bureau of Entomology and the Bureau of Public Roads. J. W. Ingram and 
E. K. Bynum, of the sugarcane insect investigations, are thus provided 
with satisfactory quarters. 
