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+ SOUTHERN FIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
4 W. D. Hunter, In Charge. 
















R. W. Howe and F. L. MecDonoug gh reported at Washington from the. field 
-f* Tallulah, La., and Batesburg, S. Car., respectively, during the 
\ general conference was held on acenier 18 to consider the danger of 
int roduction of the pink boll worm in the United States. The concensus 
nion expressed was that the present situation demands a quarantine 
y All foreign lint with a provision for the importation of such cot- 
y in States outside of the cotton belt. It was also proposed that 
uthern milis as require foreign cottons be allowed to obtain it from 
cks a? have been in storage in northern localities for at least a 
~ 2 mé. 
TRUCK CROP AND STORED PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIOS. 
#. H, Chittenden, In Charge. , 
D Fing January Mr. Charles H. Popenoe, Entomological Assistant, will 
Pheaged at Laredo, Texas, in what 1s recognized as the principal onion- 
fing region of the South, in cooperation with Mr. M. M. Hign, in test- 
@ traction sprayer designed especially for onion fields. 
Mr. Roy E£. Campbell, Scientific Assistant, formerly stationed at Sac- 
y, Cal., will remove his headquarters there and establish a new 
tion at Hayward, Almeda Co., Cal. 
Mr. Fred A. Johnston, Entomological Assistant, will close the station 
resenting this branch of the Bureau at Riverhead, Long Island, N. Y. 
Mil establish a new station at Hart, Oceana Co., Mich. One of the 
t important economic projects will be the control of the pea aphis. ~ 
ur. H. O. Marsh, Entomological Assistant, is temporarily stationed at 
Snix, Ariz. 
oie: C. F, Stahl, Scientific Assistant, has clossed his station at Je- 
e, Idaho, and is opening a new station at Spreckels, Monterey Co., Cal., 
; the study of the curly-top leafhopper (Hutettix tenella Baker). 
TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
C, L. Marlatt, In Charge 
‘Mr. Ww. &. others was in Washington for consultation on citrus work in 
rida. Mr, Sasscer is in Plorida inspecting Government plant introduc- 
| stations and looking after details of the enforcement of plant quar- 
