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SOUTHERN PIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
























W. D. Hunter, In Charge. 
D. Hunter recently returned from a trip of inspection of the work 
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following new men have been temporarily engaged for tobacco 
rm demonstration work in Tennessee and Kentucky: 0. M. Shelby, 
Crockett, J. U. Gilmore, H. B. McKinney, F. G. Sorrels, R. K. 
mit, A. D. Bosley and J. EH. McMurtrey. 

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Malarial survey at Mound, La: Ed. Foster, J. K. Thibault, Jr., 
fimbalil and F. H. O’Neil. : 
TRUCK CROP AND STORED PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
HF. H. Chittenden, In Charge. 
ir. John H. Graf, who has been working on the potato-tuber moth, 
worms affecting sugar beet, and other insects affecting sugar beets 
jtatoes, with other members of the force of the Bureau, has removed — 
8 old headquarters at Whittier to Pasadena, Cal. .. 
* H. K. Laramore has been appointed field assistant to work 
‘Mr. High at Knox, Ind., in investigations of the onion thrips and 
insects affecting onions and other vegetable and truck crops. 
". Thomas H. Jones, after an absence of some months for study in 
ngton D. C., and Masschuetts, has returned to his former head- 
ters, The Sugar Producers' Experiment Station, Rio Piedras, P. R., 
Mr. A. B. Duckett, has retvrned from a trip to New York and vicinity 
1ere he has been engaged in a-preliminary investigation of the so- 
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ylled "Argentine weevil." 

r. D. E. Fink has been engaged for some time on a new project,-- 
fumigation of insects affecting stored products by means of ammonia 
$. Considerable progress has been made. , 
INTRODUCTION OF NATURAL ENEMIES. 
Another project has been undertaken in the line of the introduction 
he braconid parasite Apanteles glomeratus, figured in circular No. 
f this Bureau, in regions where it has not yet been found. We have 
somewhat surprised to find that this parasite is not known to any 
ént in Kansas, and is apparantly totally absent in California. Any 
pyée of the Bureau who has opportunities for observing this para- 
. an its cocoons will do a favor by sending living specimens direct 
the Bureav of Entomology, U.S. Department of Agriculture, for rear- 
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