STORED-FPRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
Ee. A. Back, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
Se H., McClendon spent a portion of April in Louisiana, visiting sev-— 
eral large plantations where yearly observations as to corn weevil condi- 
tions are under way. Plantation managers are glad to see Mrs McClendon, 
for the Bureau's advice is easily translated into profits reducible to 
dollars and cents, The owners of one plantation claim that after putting 
the Bureau's information into practice they saved 3,000 bushels of corn a 
YEaTs 
Lloyd E. Jackson, Senior Industrial Fellow of the Mellon Institute 
of Industrial Research, University of Pittsburgh, visited the laboratory in 
Aprii to learn the latest developments in experiments with so-called moth- 
proofing solutions containing quinidine oleate. 
The billers Review and Dixie Miller printed in its april number a 
portion of Department Bulletin 872, "Insect Control in Flour Mills," 
Early in april the Supply Division of the U. 8. Veterans Bureau had 
bales of army blankets from its Chicago Warenouse forwarded to washington 
for examination and advice as to condition and protection from fabric pests. 
the protection of 100,000 blankets was involvede 
At the request of GC, C, Hubbard, Research Associate of the National 
Association of Dyers and Cleaners, and of the Textile Section of the Bureau 
of Standards, tests were started and completed in April to determine whether 
coatings of various proportions of paraffin dissolved in naphtha had any 
value in rendering fabrics and furs immune to attack by fabric pests, Une 
fortunately, the paraffin was found to be of no appreciable value, 
Je C, Hamlin and We D. Reed, of the Dried Fruit Insect Investigations, 
have an interesting article in the April issue of the Journal of Economic 
Entomology, entitled "Insect Revival After Fumigation," 
On April 8, J, C. Bridwell, formerly of this office, arrived in New 
York after a sojourn in India of two and a half yearss Mr. Bridwell states 
that he collected in India avboat 40 species of bruchids, representing 33 
uorecognized species, and including 6 undescribed genera, Mr. Bridwell 
brought back to this country the bruchid Collection of the ijysore State, en 
trusted to him by Dr, Kunhi Kannan, and the bruchids of the Madras Presidency 
loaned by Rao Saheb Ramachandra Rao of Coimbatore, ir. Bridwell arrived in 
Washington April 28, 
In the April ‘number of "The Bulletin," issued exclusively for the 
members of the National Retail Dry Goods association, is an article covering 
five pages, "Fur Storage bi Wumibation Method." . We Einstei 
Menager of the Merchan tie Mecener patentee athe pLipoLe af aa a is 
to discuss the Turmstorage vaults of Bullocks, Los angeles! largest depart- 
ment store, the system, developed from advice received from this Bureau, 
couples tight storage with fumigation, and supplants the more costly cold 
storage units in a modern establishment. Department stores throughout the 
