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


























ae R. Coad, Tallulah, La., was in Washington for-a conference on September 18 
B. S. ioker:, formerly of the Louisiana Experiment Station, has been appointed 
ee field assistant to determine the spread of the boll weevil in Western 
fexas, and in Oklahoma and Arkansas. 
ty C, Barber Ze an extensive trip through Georgia during the latter part of | 
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- Ba Fox of the Cereal and Forage Crop Insect Investigations, who has 
been stationed’ at Charlottsville and Tappahannock, Va., has been transferred +o 
section effective October 1. He will be engaged in the investigation of in- 
Ss concerned in the transmission of the tobacco mosaic disease under Mr. A. C. 
forgan, Clarksville, Tenn. 
W. D. Pierce attended a conference at Chattanooga, Tenn., on September 9, for 
the purpose of determining questions in which the States of Gsorgia and Tennessee 
were involved. He also made inspections of cotton fields in the vicinity of Nor- 
folk, Va., during the month. 
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Bes Dr. W. D. Hunter, in company with other members of the Federal Horticultural 
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oat inspected the cotton fumigating plants in- Boston and New York on the 13th 
(14th of September. 
TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
C. L. Marlatt, In Charge. 
J. R. Horton has completed his Argentine ant investigations in California and 
Will report in Washington about October 1 40 go. over plans of future work. 
a D. G. Tower, whe has been temporarily located in New York supervising the fumi - 
| gation Plants for the Federal Horticultural Board, has returned to Washington. 
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TRUCK CROP AND STORED PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
¥. H. Chittenden, In Charges. 
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Sgg-plant, ata es are farther as is the species has ever 
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H. L. Weatherby, owing to pressure of other duties, has been obliged to resign 
, field assistant to H. 0. Marsh at Rocky Ford, Colo. 
a The following resignations, in the force working on the control of insects as 
rriers of curcubit diseases, have become effective: James I, Hambleton, field 
ASsistant, located at the University of Wisconsin, cooperating with N. F. Howard; 
| Wi: liam N. Ankeny, stationed at Big Rapids, Mich.; A. H. Robinson, assisting Hie 
Larrimore, at Plymouth, Ind. 
“ Arthur J, King, who is stationed at Vashon, Wash., studying root-maggots, 
especially the cabbage root-maggot, has Petirned to the University of Washington. 
_. FF. A. Johnston, entomological assistant, who has been engaged at Big Rapids, 
Mich., in an investigation of the relation of insects to cucurbit diseases will 
return to Mart, iiich., at the sompletion of his studies. 
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