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. On November 19 and 20 Dr. R. T. Cotton was in Norfolk, Va., 
checking results of grain fumigations at the Norfolk Elevator. 
In the latter part of November George B. Wagner, of the flour- 
mill insect field laboratory, at Manhattan, Kans., visited milling 
establishments in and about Minneapolis, Minn., in the course of studies 
of conditions affecting export flour. 
On November 15 George B. Wagner attended a meeting, at Kansas 
City, Mo., of the Operative Millers' Association. 
In November several interesting cases of heavy infestation in 
Washington by the furniture carpet beetle, Anthrenus vorax, were brought 
to the attention of the Bureau. 

An item of general interest, passed on by Perez Simmons, is that 
one man in California lost 70 sheep this fall when he attempted to 
"Sheep off" the foliage and fruit of a vineyard where Paris green had 
been used last March against cutworms. The usual method for control 
ling the climbing cutworms which destroy many grape buds is to place 
poisoned mash in the crotches of the vines. 
DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECTS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
Oliver I. Snapp attended the annual meeting of the entomologists 
and workers in the State Plant Board in Mississippi, held at A. & M. 
College, Miss., November 24 to 26, and gave an address on the results 
of recent experiments for control of peach insects. While at the col- 
lege he lectured to all students taking courses in economic entomology 
and to the juniors and seniors taking plant pathology. 
Contributions from the Japanese~Beetle Laboratory 
T. R. Gardner recently returned to the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory 
after four years' work in Japan and Korea, where he has studied the par- 
asites of Popillia japonica and made extensive shipments of them to the 
laboratory. 
Beginning November 10 C. P. Clausen, furmerly in charge of the 
foreign—parasite work of this laboratory, spent several days with T. R. 
Gardner in preparing manuscripts and reports. 
On November 20 and 21 W. R. Walton, Senior Entomologist acting 
in charge, and L. J. King attended the New York meetings of the Eastern 
Branch of the Association of Economic Entomologists. 
J. Peter Johnson, engaged in the quarantine work of the State of 
Connecticut, visited the laboratory on November 10. 
