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TRUCK CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
BF; H, Ohittondsn, FAtomologist In Charge. 
H. ©. Marsh, who, for several years, has been in 
charge of sugar beet and truck crop insect investigations at 
Rocky Ford, Colo., visited the Bureau for consultation, and will 
look over the field on Lorg Island with a view to establishirg 
a station there where one was formerly maintained but abandoned. 
H. Ri Shoemaker has been appointed for temporary 
work at Arlington Farms where this branch of the Bureau maintains 
a truck garden for experimental purposes. 
Boyd L. adyden, ergaged in work on svgar beets at 
Pasadena, Calif., has resigned, his resignation taking effect 
July 31. 
HF, B. Milliken, employed for some time in Kansas as 
Scientific Assistant, has resigned to take up work on stored 
product insects under the direction of Dr. E. A. Back. 
A. EB. Duckett, formerly employed in this branch of 
the Bureau, has resigned but will continue along the same lines 
as formerly in stored product insects under the direction of 
Dr. EV At Back. 
Miss Pauline Margaret Johnson, Scientific Assistant, 
resigned, effective Angust 15. Miss Johnson served the Bureau 
faithfully for six years. 

Mr. F. M. Wadley will be in sharge of the Station at 
Wichita, Kans., vice &. B. Milliken. 
H. L. Weatherby will be in temporary charge of the 
station at Rocky Ford, Colo., formerly in charge of Mr. Marsh. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
W. Re Walton, Entomotogist In Charge. 
J. J. Davis reports that the Hessian-fiy wheat-sowirg 
experimental plots have been cut and resuits have proven highly 
satisfactory. The substation at Nashville, Ill:, witli be contin- 
ued and the work wilz not be transferred to southern Indiana, as 
had been previously planned. 
i J. S. Wade has been transferred from the Welilirg ton 
Field Station to Washington, D. C., where he will assist Mr. Walton 
in the office work for the present. 
F. H. Gates, formerly attached to the Tempe, Arizona, 
station, has resigned from the service, effective July l. 
J. W. Bailey has been appointed to fill the vacancy 
caused by Mr. Gates! resignation. 
