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C.L. Marlatt, Chairman é 
R. Kent Beattie recentlg visited Pernsylvania for the purpose of 
reporting on the potato quarantine situation at Freeland, He also attended 
a meeting of the potato pathologists on Long Island, N.Y. a 
W.S. Fields, who for the past year has been engaged in vhe study 
cotton and truck crop diseases in Mississingi, has been transferred from the 
Bureau of Plant Industry to the Federal Hortiaul tural Board, with assignment 
in Washington, Mr Fielda@ will assist in the inspection of plants and 
Plant products brought in by the Department of Agricul ture/ ee 
The follcwing visiters have been in Washington during the past mont 
consulting with pathologists in the Federal Horticultural Board and the 
Bureau of Plant Industry: 
A. D, Cotton, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, England, 
G.H, Pethybridge, Board of Agriculture of Ireland. 
H.M. Quanjer, Wageningen, Holland, x 
“hE. Miyabe, of the University of Sapporo, Japan, -/ 
R.I, Smith, who is in charge of supervision of cotton fumigation at th 
port of Boston, recently visited Washington for the puryose of consultation, 
Owing to the unsetthed conditions in Mexico, practically no cars have 
entered El Paso during the rast month, 7 
The public hearing on July 15, "On Account of the Flag Smut and Tales 
all Discsases of Grains and the Wheat Nematode or ESiworm Disease," was well at 
tended by interested parties from the Middle West. ‘The following State Entomp 
logists were’ in attendance: W.J. Schoene of Virginia, Frank N. Wallace of In= 
diana, and A.C, Lewis of Georgia. The State of Illinois was represented by — 
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DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INV@STIGATIONS. 
A. L. Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge, 
E.H. Siegler has just returned from Wallingford. Conn., and Dover, 
Del., where he has been assisting in connection with experimental work under — 
way at those placas, | a 
E,W, Scott, in charge of the Vienna, Va,, laboratory of the Insecti- 
cide and Fungicide Board, has resigned from the service to become tanager of 
a newly formed fruit colpany, and will make shis neadquarters at Rockville, Md 
R.W. Kelley who has beon engaged in field experinental work for the 
Insecticide and Fungicide Board, nas been placed in charge of the laboratory — 
at Vienna, Va.,-to succeed Mr. Scott. ( ! ou 
W. A. Hoffman, at Brownwood, Tex., writes in a recent letter ae follo 
concerning a substance.ihe is using in the field with success against mosqu 
"It consists of equal parts of castor oil, oil of pennyroyal, and oil of ta: 
The tigture was Suggested to me by a fellow student at Cornell several vears 
o60. BtathatttimeI tried it out once and it seemed té be fairly effective. — 
In this section while working in the fields I found the mosquitoss and a spe- 
cies of Simuliws verv troublesome. On applving the mixture I found it bo be 
very effective for about two hours, However, the substance nossesses two jis- 
«dvantages - the odor nay be unpleasant to some persons, and it is somewhat 
difficult to remove. Yet I believe the use of this combination of waterials © 
is ~referable to the torments of mosquitoes and other insects. To give it 
taorough test I went fishing on the bayou near by, and though I staved over~ 
