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Dr. Back spent October 23 and 24 in New York, where, with repre— 
sentatives of the Bureaus of Agricultural Economics and Chemistry and 
Soils, and the New York Produce Exchange, fumigations of wheat in cars 
and elevators were started with certain carbon disulphide-carbon tetra- 
chloride mixtures and with ethylene oxide. This work was continued by 
Dr. Cotton on October 28, 29, and 30. 
The 1929 Fig Institute was held October 25 and 26 in the Veter— 
an's Memorial Hall, Merced, Calif. Perez Simmons read a paper prepared 
by himself and W. D. Reed entitled "Recent work on fig insects." The 
meeting was attended by over 200 fig growers, packers, and agricultural 
authorities of the San Joaquin Valley. One of the features of the In- 
stitute which attracted much attention was an exhibit consisting of 
specimens in Riker mounts and photographs illustrating proper and im- 
proper methods of handling figs from the insect standpoint. 
A. 0. Larson reports that October was a very busy month on. ac-— 
count of the demand of bean-warehouse men for examination of farmers' 
bean deliveries. In October over 3,200 samples of beans were submitted 
-for examination as a part of the large-scale investigational work being 
conducted by the Bureau in cooperation with the bean growers and bean- 
warehouse men. 
Ss. E. McClendon writes on October 28 of a recent examination of 
corn cribs on St. Simons Island. Among other things he writes "For 
several years weevils have eaten up the corn on the * * * place. The 
Owner built a crib and sealed it, but this was not tight enough to get 
results in fumigating the corn. Since he became doubtful as to the pos- 
Sibility of controlling weevils in corn by fumigation, I told him if 
he would make his crib tight I would treat it for him. I did this early 
this year before his corn matured, with the result that now it is dif- 
' ficult to find a weevil in his maturing corn in the field." 
John R. Arnold resigned his position as Field Agent with the 
dried—fruit insect investigations, Fresno, Calif., September 14, 1929, 
to continue his college work. 
B. J. Howard, of the Food, Drug and Insecticide Administration, 
who has made the Fresno field laboratory his headquarters during his 
fig studies of the past harvesting season, left Fresno for Washington 
on October 27. Mrs. Doris Tilden, of the San Francisco office of the 
same Administration, also conducted part of her work during the har- 
vest season at the laboratory, but returned to San Francisco on Octo- 
ber ll. 
