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_ On several occasions alfalfa weevils have been found by 
lessrs. Creel and Bennion at Butte, Mont., in potatoes shipped 
1 refrigerator cars from Ogden, Utah. 
' Under date of August 5 Mr. Luginbill reports Laphygma 
arvae about full grown and ready to pupate. The first gener- 
ition was reported through other sources as present in southern 
feorgia and Alabama. 
; Mr. McConnell has a unique and important investigation in 
progress on Cerotoma trifurcata. The larvae of this beetle destroys 
the nitrogen nodules on tue roots of the cowpea. As these nodules 
are the most abundant on plants in the poorer soils where the 
nitrogen is most needed, these larvae are likely to reduce greatly 
the fertilizing value of this plant. 
| Under the new regulations it is expected that expense ac- 
counts will be promptly audited and if correct will be as prompt- 
Ty paid. Care should be taken to see that accounts are correct 
before submitting them. Remember that everyone in the Department, 
except the party presenting the voucher, is prohibitea from changing. 
correcting, or adding to the same, no matter how trivial the error 
or how simple the correction may be. The auditor can pass, suspend, 
or disallow in accordance with the regulations by which he must 
abide, but he can not so much as change a letter in the document 
itself. Have your vouchers complete and correct so that you may 
“aceive your check promptiy. Subvouchers should be properly filled 
and correctly signed. Travel should show points from which and to 
which journey was made. Per diem should show time and date of 
leaving official station as weil as of arrival on returning. For 
the form for presenting and mak.ng up accounts see page 43 of the 
Fiscal Regulations. 
- What is true in rendering accounts is equally true in sub-— 
mitting field notes for copying for permanent record, These must 
be made clear and concise. Superflueus words are dangerous at best 
and should be eliminated. The aim should be not only to make all 
records clear, but so clear as to prevent their being misunderstood, 
or so that your bitterest enemy could not misrepresent or miscon— 
strue them, anc in that way make sure that you will always appear 
‘in your notes as you wish to be put on record, Leave no editing 
to be done in the office, as it is dangerous both for you and the 
division, with your own future reputation at stake. Field notes 
@re the product of a single pair of eyes and one brain; no one else, 
no matter how careful, can put themselves in the place of the origi-— 
nal cbserver and attempt accurately to translate and transcribe 
what nature has taught him. 
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