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nT. A, leek was On leave for two weeks ending September 9. 
. Ee FP. Phillips served as delegate at the Phi Beta Kappa Council in Phila- 
, September 12.13. 
DECIDUOUS-FRUIT. INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, In Charge. 
; W. Scott made a trip to points in New Jersey and will visit points in 
n a connection with testing the efficacy claims of BUCH esate insecticides 
APas, 
AY ie Flebut, who has been working under the direction of Dr. W. D. Hunter, 
been transferred to the Office of Deciduous Fruit Insect Investigations, and 
® connected with an investigation of chestnut weevils. Messrs. W. B. Wood 
J. Flebut made a trip to Chambersburg, Pa., in connection with experiments 
% chestnut weevils. 
i R. Selkregg, who has been assisting H. G. Inugerson at Sandusky, Ohio in 
berry-moth investigations, has returned to college at Amherst, Mass., to com- 
his studies, leading towards the degree of B. 8. 
ZE K. Primm, who has been assisting Dwight Isely at North Fast, Pa., in con-. 
ction with grape-insect investigations, will have completed his work by October 1 
| his appointment terminated on that date. 
FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD. 
CG. L. Marlatt, Chairman, 
(In Cooperation with the Bureau of Eutomology. ) 
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Dr. w. G. Anching Kung of China recently visited the fumigation plants in 
> The Vacuum Company of Boston is making extensive improvements in its plant. 
en completed this plant will consist ef two cylinders 116 ft. long by 9 ft. in 
meter and two square fumigation chambers 100 ft. long by 7 ft. square. ‘An elab- 
) bell and indicator system will be installed which will enable the operator to 
ae all the work without accident. 
) @ members of the Federal Horticultural Board recently visited the fumigation 
$ located in Boston, Brooklyn aud Newark. 
_ A. @. Webb of Boston has beon temporarily transferred to Minnesota to examine 
adian potatoes for potato diseases, 
ay. S. P. Carpenter has just completed an inspection of southern cotton mills 
d has returned to his permanent headquarters in Boston. 
mc H. Willis, who has been temporarily assigned to Newark, New ee, has 
a transferred to Brooklyn with headquarters at the Vacuum Fumigetion Plant which 
tum gating at the Bush Terminal. 
FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
A. D. Hopkins, In Charge. 
ih Craighead will leave the Ist of October to make a preliminary study of a 
OL uble affecting the caks in the South Atlantic and Gulf States. The exact cause 
e 8 trouble is not known but it appears to be a combination of Prionus affect- 
i the roots, and Agrilus bilineatus and Pityophthorus pruinosus in the 
inks and branches. 
