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tracts, will take place between April 1 and’ June 1, All the farmers in the 
danger area, with a single exception, have either destroyed or agreed to de= 
stroy their seed potatoes. In view of this, the condition which threatens 
them, should the Plant Board or Department fail to ‘supply them with plants, 
can be readily imagined, as many of the farmers, due to seed scarcity, would 
be without their principal food crop. Further, should they not be delivered 6 
time, with both variety and quantity specified in the contract, the good work 
. already done in securing the confidence of the growers would be entirely lost. 
The experiment now being carried on constitutes a new procedure in 
economic entomology, i. e,, the eradication of an insect pest without inter= 
fering with ous production of its food »lant. | 
It is to be hoped that every meas ure which tends to Phe. in this can 
be conscientiously applied. The inspectors have suffered not a little handicap 
in the prevalence of heavy rains, which have made the roads in Anke County, at 
best of-an exceedingly difficult nature, practically impassable for long periods 
The mild winter has also been.a drawback, since many of the sweet-potato stems © 
which were plowed under last fall have failed to decay, Notwithstanding these 
difficulties, the cooperation shown by the growers, and the results so far ac- 
complished, promise a satisfactory reduction of the infested area to show for” 
the season! s work, ‘ 

O, D. Link, for some time identified as aaediatenrs entomological in- 
spector with the work against the sweet-potato weevil in Baker County, Yloriaa 
has resigned, to enter a private enterprise in Orlando, Florida, 1 
Ay os .4sarrell ; who received -his discharge from the. military service, has 
been reappointed aaa detert ent omological inspector for Baker ard Florida, 
replacing Mr. Link, 
C. H. Popenoe returned March 8, froma trip. ‘of inspection of. tHe sweet-= 
potato weevil stations in the Gulf pee 
Thomas H, Jones will visit southern Florida for the investigation of 
melon insects, which are reported as causing considerable injury in the south= 
ern part of the State. 
