
Rosa 
B, A. McGregor has submitted a manuscript for farmers’ Bulletin dealing with 
the control of the red spider on cotton. 
The January issue of the Service and Regulatory Announcement of the Bureau of 
Avimal Industry will contain an illustrated article by F. C. Bishopp on the types 
of cages for capturing house flies that have been found especially adapted in moat- 
packing establishments. This grows out of the cooperative project with the Inspec- 
tion Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry which was begun on July 1. 
, J. U. Gilmore has recovered from his recent illness as has J. D. Smith. 
W. D. Pierce returned to duty on January 24. 
W. D. Hunter, in company with G. B, Sudworth, of the Federal Horticultural 
Board, visited Boston during the month in connection with the preparations for the 
fumigaticn of all foreign cottons arriving in the United States which will be insti- 
tuted on February 1. 
TRUCK CROP AND STORED PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
FP. H. Chittenden, In Charge. 
Mr. E. G. Smyth, formerly an entomological assistant in this branch and now 
collaborator, recently visited Washington for consultation in regard to cooperative 
‘work in Porto Rico on insects which occur on that Island as well as in the Gulf 
Ashes Mr. Smyth has returned to the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture at 
Rio Piedras, Porto Rico. 
Mr. C. H. Popenoe, entomological assistant, who has been visiting his home at 
Topeka, Kansas, since December, has returned to Washington. While in Kansas, he 
visited the Truck Crop and Stored Product Insect Investigation Station at Wichita, 
and conferred regarding projects for the coming season with Mr. F. B. Milliken, who 
is in charge of that station. He also visited the Kansas State Agricultural Col- 
lege for conference with Prof. G. A. Dean of the Department of Entomology and with 
his assistants. 
_ Mr. D. B, Pink has been at the Department of Agriculture since the first of 
January making a special study of cucurbitaceous insects and their role as trans- 
mitters of the virus of wilts and mosaic diseases. He has also conducted similar 
Study on the springtails, the spinach aphis, and other truck crop insects which 
have been injurious during the past year in tidewater Virginia. 
