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STORED-PRODUCT INSECTS 
E. A. Back, in Charge 
A. W. Morrill, Jr., was appointed Junior Entomologist, October 
1, 1929, and assigned to the Dried-Fruit Insect Investigations, 712 
Elizabeth Street, Fresno, Calif. 
George B. Wagner was confined to the Charlotte Swift Hospital, 
Manhattan, Kans., November 1] to 16, as a result of an unfavorable ex— 
perience with chloropicrin. 
Perez Simmons and W. D. Reed, of the field laboratory at Fresno, 
Calif., made a tour of investigation November 6 to 13, visiting the es- 
tablishments of the dried-fruit industry at San Jose, Riverside, Los 
Angeles, San Diego, and Indio. 
Doctors Back and Cotton, of the Washington office, and S. EF. Mc- 
Clencon, in charge of the field laboratory at Thomasville, Ga., attended 
the meetings of the Eastern Branch of the American Association of Econ— 
omic Entomologists held at New York November 21 and 22, 
In the latter part of November S. E. McClendon spent several days 
in Washington for consultation regarding work on corn weevils, and left 
Washington November 29. 
It is reported that on November 26 three employees of a company at 
Fresno entered a fumigation chamber too soon after a fumigation with 
hydrocyanic acid and were disabled by the gas. Members of the fire de~ 
partment, using a pulmotor, worked over one of the men for forty minutes 
before he regained consciousness. This accident and the explosion of 
carbon disulphide at Dinuba, mentioned in the Monthly Letter for October, 
help to promote the acceptance of ethylene oxide for use in fumigations. 
"Weevil Campaign Must Not End." This is the title of an editorial | 
appearing in the Modesto News Herald for November 135. The following 
guotation is of interest as reflecting the wholehearted cooperation he- 
ing given Messers. Larson and Fisher: 
"Announcement from A. 0. Larson, government entomologist, that the 
bean weevil infestation in Stanislaus County is much less severe this 
year than last cannot but bring a feeling of satisfaction and accomplish- 
ment to the many persons who have aided in the campaign to eradicate the 
pest from this district. 
"In two years an infestation estimated at more than 50 per cent, 
and recognized as a menace to bean production in this district has been 
reduced, Larson estimates, to less than 4 per cent in many sections. 
"The damage caused by the weevil no longer assumes the major pro- 
portions of three seasons ago, and those whose efforts are responsible 
well may feel that much has been done. 
