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e' es of six or eight me 
sco, with such increase in the service as the erection of additi 
n -- four in Boston, two in New York, and two in San 
onal plants 
ecessitate. Importers of nursery stock are becoming interested in this new 
4 of disinfection, and are making inquiries relative to its applicability to 
rsery stock. 
Mr. Borden, who has direct charge under Mr. Sasscer of the greenhouse insect 
soject, is achieving some very interesting results in the experimental greenhouse 
wich has been erected by this Bureau. 
' Mr, Yothers attended the twenty-eighth annual me 
rticultural Society held at Tampa in April, 1915. 
scently issued, very favorable comment is made on 
as been engaged for a number of years in Florida, 
iven him in appreciation of his splendid work on the rust mite. 
eting of the Florida State 
In the report of this meeting, 
the work on which Mr. Yothers 
and a rising vote of thanks was 
TRUCK CROP AND STORED PROPUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
F. H. Chittenden, In Charge. 
Mr. D. E. Fink, Entomological Assistant, who has been searching literature on 
arious insects injurious to truck crops, has returned +o his permanent headquarters 
4 Norfolk, Va. 
s The season which has just passed, according to reports from various agents and 
ther representatives in the field, has been remarkable for the scarcity of most 
jpecies of aphides, or plant-lice; especially has this been noticed in Michigan 
here efforts are being made to experiment on the pea aphis which has been very in- 
urious in that State as well as elsewhere in previous years. 
> The onion thrips, according to Mr. M. M. High, ig about as abundant as usual 
in south Texas, more so than in the previous year, and he is of the opinion that it 
vill increase in numbers unless checked. The growers generally are handling the 
Sroposition very well, especially at Mission, Tex. 
One of the greatest troubles experienced in the control of many forms of in- 
sects injurious to vegetables and truck crops is in obtaining the best sprayer for 
ach crop grown, and in adapting the planting so that the sprayer may be used to the 
best advantage for the destruction of the principal pests. Considerable progress 
is being made along this line. 
