ence against rejections of the 'reconditioned! stock when it gets east. 
Then if the eastermm buyer does reject, the California dealer, without much 
protest, passes him fifty cents a bag to adjust the errors If there is 
no rejection the dealer at this end is in pocket that fifty cents. The 
grower of those beans is out just that much anyway, .. .That is a little 
of the tax he has to pay for having been weevils on his place, in his 
thresher or in the warehouse where he stores his beans, » « « » eHonest 
cooperation between growers, dealers and warehousemen must cone. «+s «6 
The weevil problem is squarely up to Stanislaus, San Joaquin and Merced 
Countics to straighten out by community cooperation." This is an old story 
to a. O. Larson and C. K. Fisher, who have developed and preached these 
facts that others are now making their own, when in Stanislaus County this 
month Mre Larson spoke of the weevil situation before the Turlock Chamber 
of Commerce, a special committee for the county Board of Supervisors, the 
Agricultural Committee, the liodesto Chamber of Commerce, and the County Farm 
Bureau, The development of commmity effort based on information resulting 
from tedious exaiinations of warehouse receipts and semples, and the examina- 
tion of beans on various farms was part of \ir. Larson's prograi while check-= 
ing up on conditions in Teger, Turlock, Mitciell, Keyes, Denair, Hughson, 
Fairview, Patterson, Paradise, Salida, Prescott, Ceres, and Mt. Views. 
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FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
PF, C, Craighead, Senior Imtomologist, in Charge 
In the latter part of March F, 0, Craighead and J. a. Beal spent 
some time on the Choctowhatchee Division of the Florida National Forest, 
making a preliminary study of the turpentine borer (Buprestis apricans 
Hbste). This insect causes serious losses in longleaf and slash pines 
after they have been Operated for turpentine. ‘The more conservative types 
of operating adopted by the Forest Service prevent much of this damage, 
though faces exposed for a number of years are finally attacked, 
. Early in) April R, “a. St. George and J, a, Beal began the summer 
work at Bent Creek, the location of the field laboratory near asheville, 
N. C. It was found that low temperatures in the past winter had caused a 
high mortality in overwintering broods of Dendroctonus valens. 
Dr, T. E, Snyder left Washington on April 5 to make an inspection 
of black walnut gun—stock blanks, and other timber, all infested by Lyctus 
powder-post beetles, and stored at Bock Island arsenal, Rock Island, Ill,, 
for the Ordnance Division of the War Department. On his return trip to 
washington he stopped at the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, wis., to 
consult the Forest Service officials regarding cooperative work on tests 
of wood preservation, and returned to washington april 9, 
a william Middleton deft washington april 19 for a short trip to 
Willow Grove, Paes, to study the results obtained in fumigation of boxwood 
for the boxvood leaf iners He returmed to washington on april 23, 
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