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DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 

A. L. Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 
2 Dr. A. L. Quaintance made an extended trip to the Pacific Coast, visit- 
ing various field laboratories attached to this office. He has now returned 
to Washington. 
4 W. B. Wood, who has been assisting Dr. N. E. McIndoo in connection with 
_ insecticide investigations the past season, has been transferred to the - 
Federal Horticultural Board, and assigned £6 duty in the Plant Quarantine 
E Greenhouse. 
C. H. Richardson made a short. trip to Philadelphia and New York to 
confer with experts on mineral oils. 
| E. R. Selkregg, in charge of the urea’ 8 laboratory at Dover, Del. 
_ has returned to Washington and will be engaged in preparing reoiie on 
' the subject of his field investigations. 
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TRUCK CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F. H. Chittenden, Entomologist in Charge 
John E. Graf has returned to his headquarters at Macclenny, Fla., after 
a protracted visit at Ocean Springs, Miss., in connection with sweet- 
potato weevil eradication and experiments in control m-asures. 
C. H. Popenoe, entomologist in truck-crop insect investigations, has 
spent the month in visiting the western stations of this branch, with 
particular attention to the Central Pacific States. 
ei F. J. Brinley has been appointed to take charge of the Colorado Ex- 
periment Station at Greeley, Colo., a position made vacant by the resig- 
Mation of A. E. Mallory. 
Thos. H. Jones, entomological assistant, is in Florida, where a new 
‘station will be satablished for the SORT OE St of the insects injurious 
to truck crops in that State. 
CG. F. LaGrone, who was engaged at the Louisidna Experiment. Station at 
Baton Rouge, La., has resigned. 
Neale F. Howard, specialist in insects as carriers of plant diseases, 
; has been reappointed and has established headquarters at Bowling Green, 
Ohio. 
Julius W. Sauer has been reappointed assistant entomological inspector, 
| with headquarters at Kingsville, Tex. ; | 
H. E. Loomis, assistant entomological inspector, who has. returned. from . 
Meeeryice in the Marine Corps, has been fas Deo ae with headquarters at 
_ Macclenny, Fla. 
