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STORED-PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
E. A. Back, Entomologist, in Charge 
On January 15 C. K. Fisher addressed <00 persons gathered at the 
Farm Bureau Center at Arlington, Riverside County, Calif., on the Comores 
of bean weevils. lir.. Fisher's telk was well illustrated and was received 
with much appreciation, 
Perez Simmons was elected an active member of the American Associ- 
ation of Zconomic HZntomologists at the Kansas City meetings. 
Dr. E. A. Back attended the winter meetings of the National Furniture 
warehousenen's Association held January 18 to ee in the Peabody Hotel at 
Memphis, Tenn, The American warehouseien's Association voted at its 
December meeting, at the Willard Hotel, washington, D. ©., to discontinue 
its Household Goods Division. ‘his action will result in a greatly 
enlarged National Furniture warehousemen's Association. 
Mrs. S. B. McDonald resumed her duties as artist on January 19, after 
a long absence on account of illness. 
G. S. Oettle, of the General Manager's Office, South African Rail— 
roed Headquarters, Johannesburg, was a recent caller to discuss the problem 
of maize conservation in South Africa. The problem of protecting corn 
from weevil attack after it has been delivered at the local elevators 
along the railroads, and curing shipment from these to the terminel ele- 
vators froi1 whence it is shipped, to Buropean points, is a most serious one. 
Since this corn is handled a considerable number of times it is believed 
that the ethyl acetate-carbon tetrachloride mixture will prove a very > 
serviceable aid. It can be used at elevators Without entailing a fire 
hazard, anc the frequent handling will tend to overcome the objection to 
the odor that this funigant leaves on the grain. 
A new book recently off the press is "Household Goods Warehousing 
in the United States," by C. A. Aspinwall, President of the Security Stor- 
age warehouse Company of washington, D. C., the printing having been 
financed by the American Warchouserien's Association. ~The portion of the book 
relating to Entomology consists of a reprint of Farzers! Bulletins 1346 
and 1353, on carpet beetles and clothes moths, and, under the subject of 
cold storage, the data already published by Back and Cotton, ‘The insect 
illustrations have been reproduced much better than those in Federal publi- 
cations. The following extract from the introduction is of interest, 
as 1t helps one to wnderstand why the household goods: warehousemen's insect 
probleus have increased so rapidly in recent years: 
"Furniture or household goods warehousing is a branch of one of the 
oldest businesses in the world. As soon as there was trade there were 
warehouses. Joseph built them in Hgyvpt, and back in the beginning of 
recorded history in Sumerien and Babylonian times there were warehouses, 
