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DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
A. L. Quaintance, In Charge. 




















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Mr. John B. Gill is ona trip of investigation of pecan insects 
‘eh points in Lovisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. He will return 
‘Ss headquarters at Monticello, Fla. about the middle of October. 
car. B. R. Leach is now completely recovered from an operation 
ppendicitis and has resumed his duties at Winchester, Va. in 
tion with investigations of the wooly apple aphis. 
yg A. J. Ackerman is engaged in making experiments with certain 
fumigants in the control of the wooly apple aphis in nurseries 
een. 
The Cranberry insect laboratory, formerly at Pemberton, WN. J., 
sharge of Mr. H. B. Scammell, has been transferred to Brown’ 8 
By N. ie 
Dr. A. L. Quaintance has returned from a trip of inspection of 
im dusting and spraying experiments at Romney and Springfield, 
‘Mr. H. K. Plank, who has been assisting Mr. H. B. Scammell in 
merry insect investigations, wil. shortly be transferred to Wash- 
1 for the winter months. 
‘Ur, Leslie Pierce, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, is assisting 
F. L. Simanton at the Benton Harbor, Mich. laboratory in harvest- 
, fruit in connection with the cooperative dusting and spraying 
periments in the control of apple insects and diseases. 
, or. N. BE. McIndoo, formerly working under the direction of, Dr. 
» Phillips in apicultural investigations, has been transferred 
the office of Deciduous Fruit Insect Investigations and will de- 
s his attention to a study of the physiological action on insects 
Various insecticides, especially those insecticides occurring in 
ints, with headquarters at Washington, D. C. 
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