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| Herbert F, Gates, formerly attached +o the investigational staff at Tempe, 
izona, has been reappointed, and detailed for work on the European cornstalk 
rer in eastern Massachusetts, 
Herbert J, Pack has been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the in- 
Stion of Mr. Standford in the military service, 
C, N, Ainslie has just returned to his field station at Sioux City, Iowa, 
ter a tour of demonstration work in the states of North Dakota and South 
akota, He reports that drouth conditions in North Dakota are quite discourag- 
ng ani that grasshopper injury in both North and South Dakota promises to be 
site severe, 
Stewart Lockwood, a graduate of Baker University, formerly employed as 
uperinveadent on a beet sugar farm in Colorado, has been engaged as Special Field 
gent for grasshopper control work in North Dakota, Mr. Lockwood entered upon nis 
aw duties on July 15, 
y A, F, Satterthwait, who recently conducted a very successful control cam- 
aign against chinch bugs on the experimental plots of Dry Land Agriculture at 
wton, Okla,, is preparing to return to Lawton at an early date, in order to fin- 
8h the control work, 
