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"Red Cedar Chests as Protectors Against Moth Damage" is the title of 
an article recently submitted by HE. A. Back and Frank Rabak, Chemical 
Biclogist, of the Drug, Poisonous and Oil Plant Investigations of the Bureau 
of Plant Industry. 

BEK-CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
EH. F. Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge 
J. B. Moorman, who was employed during the summer for a special survey 
to determine whether Tarsonemus woodi, the purported cause of Isle of Wight 
disease, is present in the United States, resigned September 1 to accept a 
position at Austin College, Sherman, Tex. 
BH. S. Prevost and N. I. Lyle, employed as extension specialists in South 
Carolina and Iowa respectively, resigned September 30. The extension work of 
the Bureau was discontinued on that date. 
A. D. Shaftesbury resigned, effective September 30, to go to Johns 
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Hopkins University to resume his graduate studies in zoology. 
B. F. Phillips attended the summer field meeting of the Worcester County 
Massachusetts Beekeepers' Association at Paxton, September 3. 

CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. R. Walton, Entomologist in Charge 
Philip Luginbill, in charge of the field laboratory at Columbia, Se Gey 
recently visited Washington for the purpose of consultation and completion 
of manuscript on the fall army worm. Mr. Luginbill returns. to Columbia 
October 3. 
Stewart Lockwood, in charge of grasshopper investigations in the North 
western States and located at Fargo, N. D., recently visited Washington for 
consultation. Mr. Lockwood returns +o Fargo about October 1. He reports 
grasshopper conditions in North Dakota as very much improvede 
Louis R. Schreiner, who was engaged as field assistant for the summer at 
Carlisle, Pas, laboratory, has resigned for the purpose of completing his 
studies. . 
Ernest E. Russell. has been appointed field ‘superintendent in insect Cone 
trol and is located at the United States Entomological Laboratory at Gainese 
ville, Texas, for the purpose of studying the insects affecting cereal and 
forage crops in northern Texase ir. Russell was formerly connected with the 
office of the Arizone State entomologist. 
