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F R W. Wells is at pres ent i ’ ; 
« * ocat ' a pot 
warble. ed at Herkimer, N» Ye studying the ox . 
| O. G. Be bacok is located st Sonora, Tex», investigating the acrew wv worm 
yan cooperation with the Texas uxperiment Station. 
AS Bureau of Chemistry has assigned two chemists to the boll weevil 
laboratory .at Tallulah, La,» to make analyses of samples of calcium arsenate 
) prepared for dusting cotton for control of the boll weevile The volume 
| -of work was found to be too heavy for one man to handle. 
. L.eZ. Naylor has been transferred from the boll weevil force to the 
Insecticide Board as an inspector, 
| J+ N, Tenhet has been transferred from the Tebacco hd 
| 1s nsect ljaborator 
Quincy; Flas, to Clarksville, Tenn. ‘ ae 
George Ns Wolcott was transferred from the Bureau of Plant Industry 
q to the Bureau of Entomology, sugar-cane insect investigations, July le He 
is at present located in Porto Rico but expects to leave the service in 
the near future. to accept the position of entomologist for Santo Domingos 
Dre Ws De Hunter was in Washington July 12 to 17, to attend the meeting 
| of the Federal Horticultural Board for the consideration of the pink bollworm 
“situation in Texas and Louisiana. 

DECIDUOUS FRUET INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
Ae Le Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 
Ws Me Davidson, engaged in investigations of predatory inSects at Alhambra, 
Bcalif., has been transferred to the Insecticide and Fungicide Board and will 
“assist in insecticidestesting work: at the Vienna, Vae, laboratory of the Boards 
Mrs» Me Le Gardner, who has been assisting Dre Ae C« Baker in studies 
of Aphididae and Aleyrodidae, has been transferred to the Bureau of Hae ae 
‘Survey. 
F. J. Brinley, formerly engaged in investigations of the insect. enemies 
| of sugar beets at Greeley, Colo., has been transferred from the office of 
‘Truck-Crop Insect Investigations to this: office and has been assigned to the 
Japanese beetle project at Riverton, Ne Jw 
r Winfield F. Runyen, a graduate of the Kansas State Agricultural College, 
has been appointed as plant quarantine inspector and is engaged | in inspection 
“work in connection with the Japanese beetle investigations at Riverton, Ne Je 
f EB, He Siegler made a. short trip to Riverton, Ny Je, and Wallingford, Conne » 
‘to confer with agerts in cherge of* the laborat ories at these two placese 
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CIPSYeMOTH. AND BROWN-TAIL. MOTH INVESTIGATIONS 
A. F. Burgess, Entomologist in Charge | 
Owing to the cold weather during June and an éxcessive amount of rains. 
“spraying was seriously. interfered with. ‘Conditions were such, however, that 
the development of, the gipsy moth larvae was considerably retarded, and as 
@ result spraying was continued during’ the first week in July. Approximately 
Wthe same area was treated as in past seasons, work being done,in all of the. 
New England States excepting Maine and Vermont... The infestation is severe 
in the region south: of Boston:and in southern New Hampshires In the northern 
part of the infested area: +here was a heavy mortality of gipsy moth egg 
