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gy Mr. E, A. McGregor recently made a preliminary investigation of cotton 
nsects in a new cotton section in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Mr, 
regor made a number of very interesting notes on insect occurrences which 
1 be of value as indicating possible insects to be later expected in this 
r cotton section, 
W,. DWIGHT PIERCE 
Acting in Charge Southern Field 
Crop Insect Investigations. 
DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS, 
A, L, Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge. 
b. Mr. Preston W. Mason, a graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College, 
has been appointed Scientific Assistant, and will be engaged in statistical 
work in connection with codling~moth investigations, with headquarters at 
Washington, D. CG. 
Mr. Chester I. Bliss has been appointed Field Assistant and will assist 
Mr. G, A, Runner in connection with grape-insect investigations, with head- 
Quarters at Sandusky, Chio, 
| Mr, F. L. Wellman has been appointed Field Assistant and will assist 
‘Mr, Dwight Isely in connection with apple-insect investigations, with head- 
“quarters at Bentonville, Ark. 
| Messrs. H, S, Saidel, C. H. Alden and A, D, Tilton have resigned to 
enter the army service, 
FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD 
C, L. Marlatt, Chairman. 
A legal situation relative to plantings of cotton in the quarantined 
areas in Texas in viclation of the order prohibiting such plantings has been 
cleared up somewhat by court action and by decisions of the Attcrney General's 
Office of the State of Texas, tans are now under way to condemn as public 
“nuisances and to have destroyed ali cotton planted in cotton-free zones in 
‘violation of the Proclamation of the Governor of the State designating such 
"zones. The fact that this cutton was planted in veo.ation of the law, even 
though no penalty for such planting is provided, invalidates any claim of the 
planters for damages for destroyed cotton, Such planting, in violation of the 
‘law, while considerable, represents, in fact, but a very small percentage of 
the farms within the quarantined areas, and, undoubtedly, the general sent iment 
of the district and of the State is for a rigid enforcement of the law, 
q ly returned from another of his periodic trips to 
| Mexico and reports that the research work on the pink bollworm is making good 
MB progress, It seems to te fuily determined that the insect does not begin its 
breeding operations until the squares and bolis are developed on the cotton, 
‘and that most, if not all, of the moths emerging early in the year perish, 
Mr. Busck has recent 
has been an assistant at this station for the first half 
private estates. He has had charge 
and his services have been of 
of the Board, he came to 
Mr, Tejada, who 
of the year, has resigned to look after his 
of the field work with these substitute crops, 
great value to the station, At the invitation 
