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country are keenly interested in this new development, for it is much les 
expensive than the method in use. About one and e half pages are given 
to printing an extract from a statement solicited fror “his Bureay, 
E, Hy, Lane, President of The Lane Company, of Altavista, Va., the 
largest maanutacturer of cedar chests in America, called i: April to isarm 
the result oi the Bureau's experiments to determine the comparative value 
of chests'of solid red cedar, as compared with those of otmer woods contain-= 
ing a lining of’ cedar veneers 
This Division has recently learned from its correspondence with the 
Exporters and importers Adjustment Bureau of New York that in the latter 
part of 1926 stored=product insects caused a loss of more than 350,000 in 
the export flour businesse 
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E. A. Back spent April 9 in Philadelphia, where a long-term experi~ 
ment is in progress in’ a wogien factory, having for its object the eliwina- 
tion of losses caused by caiithes moths. It is claimed that these losses 
amount to about 43,000 per month, 
Dr» Johns, of the Standard Oil Company, visited the Bureau in April 
to learn the results of certain experiments with mothnprocfing solutions, 
One furniture warehouseman doing a large business recently wished 
advice as to which of two chemicaiSin crystalline form was the better for 
his purpose. . fhe Bureau's experiments have indicated that the chemicals 
were of practie¢ally the same valve, Since one costs 75, and the otner only 
7, cents per pound, the advice given meant a worthwhile saving in the 
correspondent's, storage plant, 
Ce W. Dipman, Editor of the Progressive Grocer, recently submitted 
for criticism by this Division an article by R» Fs Linder, entitled "Dontt 
Let. the Weevils Eat Up Your Profits and Reputation." This article, published 
in April,. claims: that grocery interests suffer an annual loss of $200,000,000 
through asd gh AG at of PE ental insects. 
Hon, Harry A. McBride, ‘Vice Consul at Malaga, Spain, was a caller 
in the latter part of April. He was particularly interested in obtaining in- 
formation regarding attacks of insects on Spanish raisins and almonds. Ship- 
ments of almonds from Spain in 1926 arrived et their destinations more badly 
infested than usual. It was interesting to learn from Mr. McBride that 
directions for fumigations, given several years ago to Malaga interests, had 
resulted in routine fumigations in almond warehouses, and that losses caused 
by os Selena sae sen insects. to almonds in transit have been greatly lessened, 
~ Donald i; Kieffer, in. an article entitled "Bean Weevils Are a Com 
munity Problem appearing in the Pacific Rural Press for April 9, stated that 
in 1926 bean weevils were responsible for a loss to Tarmers in San Joaquin, 
Stanislaus, and Merced. Counties, Calif., of from one to one and a quarter 
Million dollars, about 70 per cent of their consignments of beans were found 
on their arrival at warehouses to be infested with these insects. "It is 
now.. _ the practice for dealers to knock off fifty cents per hundred when they 
buy. in these eRe a + Sarde fumigation will not provide sufficient insur- 
