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Bel in Mississippi and Louisiana; study of mesquite cordwood insect problem 
ea? and study of Dendroctonus control work in California, Oregon and 
pOLorado, 
as Mr. Carl Heinrich left on the first of tre month to spend about a month 
See oS 1gat ion of the pine needle minor (Recurvaria milleri Busck) in the 
Yosemite National Park and the pine tip-moth (Evetria sp.)in the nurseries of 
the Nebraska National Forest, 
¥ Mr. Middleton spent about ten days, “near the middle of the month, at Lyme, 
Conn., securing comparative dates of emergence and development of sawfly larvae 
and gallemaking ¢yninvids, 
a Miss Ada F. Kneale, University of Colorado, B.5S., 1918, has been appointed 
as Scientific Assistant, pending certification, and assigned to the Hastern 
Field Station. She will assist Mr, Heinrich in life-history studies of forest 
Lepidoptera, 
STORED PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
E, A, Back, Entomologist in Charge. 
4 Mr. R. L. Clute, for the past six months Special Field Agent at Gaines= 
ville, Fla,, will sever his connections with the Bureau on August lst, At pres- 
ent Mr. Clute is putting into form for publication, some of his observations 
regarding corn storage in Florida, 
= Pe re ee lll Ol Olle 
If plans carry, 300 tons of cowpeas, a portion of the over=production of 
last year in the South, will be shipped from Baltimore to Burope in the near 
future, It is planned to treat theso peas by heat to kill the weevil. 
Mrs, Sibyl Swegman, recently appointed artist, has been making illus- 
trations in India ink wash work, 
1 Mr, F. B, Milliken stationed at Amarillo, Texas, has continued his emer. 
_ gency work during the past month, He has inspected warehouses and mills at 
various points in Texas and has been able to give much needed advice regarding 
the protection of food supplies, 
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| This office has had assigned it a large room, one of a series of twenty 
in a block recently taken over by the Government at the Bush Terminals, New 
York City, for the use of the offices of the Quartermasters' Department, This 
~Yoom has already been fitted with shelving and will be furnished as speedily as 
possible by the Storage Officer in charge in accordance with plans formulated 
by Mr. A, B. Duckett. Mr, Duckett will return to New York directly after July 4th. 
