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MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOM 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. R. Walton, Entomologist in Charge 
C. M. Packard, of the Hagerstown, Md., station, and W. J. Phillips, 
of the station at Charlottesville, Va. spent a short time in Washington 
during the month, 
Saws. omith of the laboratory at Schenectady, N. Y., has resigned 
from the service, effective January 17, 1920. 
EK. M. Searls, of the Schenectady, N. Y., laboratory, has resigned 
from the service, effective December 31, for the purpose of completing 
his schoo. work. 
T. D. Urbahns, for many years in charge of the California field 
station of this branch of the Bureau, has resigned to accept a position 
with the California State Board of Agriculture, effective, February 1. 
Mr. Urbahns expects to be locate at Sacramento, and to work in close 
cooperation with his successor in the Bureau work. 
C. M. Packard, recently in charge of the station at Hagerstown, 
Md., has been promoted to the position vacated by Mr, Urbahns, and will 
take up his new work some time during the month of February. Mr. 
Packard formerly acted as Mr. Urbahns’ assistant in the California 
work, and is thoroughly familiar with its requirements, 

DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 
The laboratory at Seaview, Wash, where investigations of cran- 
berry insects have been made during the past two seasons in cooperation 
with the Washintgon Agricultural Experiment Station, has been discon- 
tinued, and H. K,. Plank will be placed in charge of the Bureau’s 
laboratory to be reestablished in Michigan for the purpose of making 
investigations of deciduous fruit insects in that region. 
B. R. Leach, who has been in charge of field operations in the 
control of the codling moth at Dover, Del., during the past season, has 
been transferred to Riverton, N, J., where he will make investigations 
of insecticides for the Japanese beetle and additional studies of 
its biology. 
Wn. A. Hoffman, who has been assisting in connection with 
pecan insect investigations at Brownwood, Tex,, has been transferred 
to Riverton, N. J., where he will assist Mr, Leach in investigations of 
insecticides against the Japanese beetle. 
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Fla., where investigations are being made of pecan insects, 1s 
temporarily in Washington. 
Curtis P. Clausen, a graduatee of the University of California, 
John B. Gill, in charge of the Bureau’s laboratory at Monticello, 
has been appointed specialist in insect parasites of the Japanese beetle, 
