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Mass.; Neale F. Howard, Bowling Green, Ohio, to Birmingham, Ala.; Fred A, 

 Johnston, Kingsville, Tex., to Nogales, Ariz.; Francis F. Bibby, K. P. Ewing, R. C. 

 Gaines and G. L, Plyler, boll weevil force to Federal Horticultural Board; E. R. 

 Van Leeuwen, Cornelia, Ga., and W. D. Whitcomb, Yakima, Wash., temporarily 

 to Fort Valley, Ga. 



An important conference in regard to the Mexican Bean Beetle, Epilachna corrupla, 

 that has recently been introduced into Alabama and now occurs in 12 counties in that 

 State was held at Birmingham and Montgoniery, Alabama, on September 20 and 21, 

 1920. Among those in attendance were: Doctor W. E. Hinds, State Entomolo- 

 gist of Alabama; Professor G. E. Starch er. State Horticulturist of Alabama; Doctor 

 J. H. Montgomery of the State Plant Board of Florida; Professor A. C. Lewis, State 

 Entomologist of Georgia; T. H. Jones, Entomologist of the Louisiana Experiment 

 Station; Professor R. W. Harned. State Entomologist of Mississippi; W. J. Baerg, 

 State Entomologist of Arkansas; C. H. Popenoe and J. E. Graf of the U. S. Bureau 

 of Entomology. 



Dr. Wilmon Newell has accepted the positions of Director of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Agri- 

 cultural Extension Division — all connected with the University of Florida at Gaines- 

 ville, Florida. The appointment became effective January 12th last. Dr. Newell 

 has not relinquished the position of Plant Commissioner, which he has held for the 

 past five and one-half years. On the contrary. Dr. Newell will, in addition to the 

 new duties he has assumed, continue to direct the plant pest control work and the 

 police and regulatory activities of the State Plant Board of Florida. 



During the Chicago meetings of the A. A. E. E. an organization of extension work- 

 ers was formed, with the object of enabling the extension workers in the various 

 states to keep in closer touch with each other, to enable them to take advantage of 

 newly-discovered control methods, and to make possible the more rapid dissemina- 

 tion of knowledge of insect outbreaks which might spread from one state to another. 

 Mr. E. G. Kelly, Manhattan, Kansas, was elected chairman. All those interested in 

 such an organization are asked to communicate with Mr. W. P. Flint, Secretary, 

 Natural History Building, Urbana. Illinois. 



The Federal Horticultural Board has sent out a warning to the effect that 

 French fruit seedlings now arriving in the country are heavily infested with brown- 

 tail moth nests. Thorough inspection is urged upon all directly or indirectly affected 

 by the possible establishment of this pest in new localities. Experiments are now in 

 progess at Boston, Mass., to determine the possibility of killing the hibernating 

 larvae by vacuum fumigation. There have also been repeated findings on shipments 

 of French seedlings of the White Tree Pierid, Aporia crataegi, the larvae of which 

 are general feeders on the foliage of fruit and wild rosaceous plants and oak trees 

 in Europe. Inasmuch as there is a possibility of confusing the nests of these two 

 species, it is suggested, if there be any doubt of the identity of the species, that that 

 material be forwarded to specialists for determination. 



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