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F.C, Bishopp and E.W. Laake have completed a general trip of 
inspection to the larger meat packing establishments in the United States, 
This work is in cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry and has 
relatiqto the control of the house fly and other insects in establish- 
ments operating under federal supervision, Later Mr, Bishopp made a 
trip to the Pacific northwest returning to Dallas via Topaz, Calif., 
where Mr, Webb is engaged in the study of insects affecting the health 
of animals, 
DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
A, L, Quaintance Entomologist in Charge. 
Dwight Isely, who has been engeged in investizations of grape 
insects, especially the grave-berry mcth, at North East, Pa., has been 
transferred to the laboratory being established at Bentonville, Ark. 
Mr, Ssely will give svecial attention to the study or apple insects in 
the Ozarks and will later be joined Dy H.G. Ingersoa, 
Wm.O,Ellis nas been assigned to investigate the occurrence at 
Riverton, N.J., of thé supposed Japancse beetle, Popillia japonica. 
This insect has recently attracted attention by reason of its injury to 
various plants, including members of the Vitis family. 
J.J, Culver, who has been engaged in peach dusting and spray- 
ing experiments at Fort Valley, Ga., has been transferred to Monticello, 
Fla., where he will assist John B, Gill in peesh insect investigations. 
Mr, Culver will give special attention to various parasites attacking 
insects injurious to the pecan. 
A,{,Fabis has been transferred from the Monticello, Fla., 
laboratory, where he has been assisting Jonn B, Gill in pecan insect 
investigations, and will have charge of the newly established laboratory 
at Brownwood, Texas, where investigations will be carried out with pecan 
insects in that region. 
Warren D. Whitcoms, recently apoointéd in the Bureau, is visit- 
ing various points in the Blue Piuge ana Aslegheny “Mountains, assisting 
merchants and jobbers in the treatrent of chestnuts for the destruction 
of chestnut weevils, this work being a part of the activities on chest- 
nut weevils and other nut inserts under the immediate direction of A.J. 
Flebut. 
FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD. 
C, L. MARLATY, CHAIRMAN. 
A bill will probably be considerca by the Texas iegislature now 
in special session prcvidins for the establishmeat of a cotton-free zone 
to include the counties bordering on Mexico, suca zone to be adainistered 
in cooperation with the Federai Hurticuiturel Poard of thie Department. 
