Number 173 

STORED—PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
E. A. Back, in Charge 
Gilbert A. Schenk, of the field laboratory at Manhattan, Kans., 
studying insect control in flour mills, spent a portion of December in 
Washington for consultation and reference work. After leaving Washing— 
ton December 14, on his return trip, Mr. Schenk made stops at Harris-— 
bure, St. Louis, and Kansas City. 
Dr. E. A. Back attended the meetings of the Insecticide and Dis— 
infectant Manufacturers Association, held at Hotel McAlpin, New York 
City, December 10 to 13, and on December 12 showed a series of lantern 
Slides depicting injury caused by the clothes moth, and methods of con- 
trol. Doctors Roark and Redman, of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, 
also attended the meetings. 
A meeting of representatives of Stanislaus, Merced, and San Joaquin 
Counties, Calif., was held at Modesto December 12 to review work al- 
ready done along the lines of control of the bean weevil, and to make 
plans for more extensive cooperation among bean growers in this portion 
Of California. A. O. Larson and C. K. Fisher, of the field laboratory 
at Alhambra, Calif., were among the speakers, and E. T. Hamlin, Horti- 
cultural Commissioner of Stanislaus County, presided. Among others 
present were horticultural commissioners from Merced and San Joaquin 
Counties, horticultural inspectors from Mountain View, Patterson, Water= 
ford, Oakdale, Turlock, Delhi, Manteca, and Lodi, a bee inspector from 
the Horticultural Department, a representative from the Turlock Chamber 
of Commerce, one from the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors, who 
also was a member of the bean committee of the Stanislaus County Farm 
Bureau, one from the Agricultural Extension Service at Modesto, and repre— 
sentatives from two warehouse companies and a Grange company at Modesto, 
from more or less similar concerns at Turlock, Merced, Hilmar, and Trin- 
idad, and from five farm centers. 
On December 20 A. 0. Larson gave a talk on bean-weevil control at 
the Prescott, Calif., Farm Center. 
