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STORED PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS, 
E.A, Back,Hntomologist in charge. 
During June and the early part of July, Dr. E,A,Back made an 
extended trip through the middle West and the South to familiarize him- 
self with the methods of storing grain and with insects affecting ware- 
houses, grain elevators, and flour mills. The establishments of many 
large concerns were visited in Chicago, Minneapolis. Kansas Citv, Wichita, 
Galveston, New Orleans, and elsewhere, 
A,B, Duckett has recently returned from a ten days launch 
cruise down the Potomac Kiver, with camping quarters at Biackistone 
Island. 
TRBPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
C.L. Marlatt, Entomologist in Gharge. 
W.W. Yothers is spending a few weeks in Washington working up 
his notes and preparing manuscript for a Farmers' bulletin. He will 
return to Florida about the 15th of September to organize the new ex- 
tension work in cooperation with the State Extension Service. 
TRUCK CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
F, H. Chittenden, Entomologist in Charge. 
H.O. Marsh is temporarily stationed in New Jersey. 
Marion R. Smith, Plymouth, Ind,, will visit Washington,D.C, 
for consultation. 
Charles E. Smith, Muscatine, Iowu,, will probably visit 
Washington, D.C. for consultation. 
It is planned to send Marion R.Smith and Charles &, Smith to 
stations in the Gulf Region during the winter and spring. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS, 
W. R.z Walton, Entomologist in Charge. 
D.J.Caffrey has been transferred from Tempe, Arizona and placed 
in charge of the Hagerstown, Md. Jaboratory. 
Y,L.Dozier, a graduate cf the University of South Carclina and 
the University of Florida, has been apnointed scientific assistant and 
detailed to the Tempe, Ariz. station to fill the vacancy caused by the 
transfer of D,J,Caffrey. 
