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on The isolation of the Pecos Valley district and the fact that the cotton 
2m -it.is grown entirely under irrigation, make it possible to pursue the clean- 
up operations with great efficiency. The further fact that the insect seems to 
have been largely killed by the freezes of early winter gives this district a 
rather different outlook from that of the infested regions in eastern Texas 
In view of these conditions and of the fact that in this district cotton and 
alfalfa are the only available crops, and that it is too late this year to pre- 
pare for the alfalfa crop, plans are being made to allow the growth of cotton 
next season in this district under such supervision and control as will permit 
the prompt safeguarding of any new outbreak of the insect, The conditions as 
outlined, however, are such as to give hope that the insect in this region will 
be thoroughly exterminated this winter, 
The port inspection that is being conducted by George Compere for the 
Board at New Orleans is yielding some very interesting results which would seem 
to justify making this service a permanent one, Mr. Compere has intercepted 
various cotton importations from Mexico, and fruit infested with fruit flies, 
etc. H. F. Dietz, who is now en route for the station in the Canal Zone, will 
spend a week or ten days in New Orleans working with Mr. Compere in this port 
inspection service and an invitation has been extended to the State Plant Board 
of Florida to have some of its experts associate themselves for a week or more 
_with Mr. Compere to get the advantage of his. experience in port inspection. 
If it can be arranged, furthermore, Mr, Compere's work will be extended to some 
of the Florida ports where his experience may be helpful to the local State in- 
spectors enforcing both State and Federal quarantines. + 
Two hearings have been conducted during the month, one on the proposed 
quarantine of the common barberry and other rust-suscept&ble species of Berberis 
and Mahonia on account of the black stem rust of wheat, and the other on the 
proposed quarantine of the States of Massachusetts and New York on account of 
the European corn borer (Pyrausta nubilalis). 
C, A, Weigel; who left the inspection service of the Board to enter the 
Medical service of the Army for the period of the war, has been released and 
has resumed his duties as inspector in Washington, In this work Mr. Weigel is 
charged in particular with the inspection and research work in relation to 
greenhouse insects. 
Lieut. John A. Monteith, jr., a pathological inspector of the Board, has 
also been released from the Army and has resumed‘ his service for the Board. 
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TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
C. L, Marlatt, Entomologist in Charge 
C, E. Pemberton, who followed Dr. Back in charge of the fruit-fly station 
and quarantine service in Hawaii, and who has been for the past year in war ser- 
vice in Honolulu, has been released from the Army and has accepted a position 
with the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association at a material financial betterment, 
Mr. Pemberton has given the Bureau excellent service and carries to his new work 
the hearty good wishes of his old associates, | 
Harry D, Young, who has been associated with R. S, Woglum in Southern 
California and has had particular charge of the investigation and demonstration 
‘work in connection with the use of liquid hydrocyanic acid for orchard fumigation, 
