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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. R, Walton, Entomologist in Charge 
: ee Baker, a craduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural, College, has 
er appointed scientific assistant, and detailed for duty at San Antonio, 
exas, on the sorghum midge investigations under C. H, Gable. Mr. Baker 
will report for duty November l, . , 
: ag Jones, formerly attached to the corn borer activities at Arline- 
on, Mass, has been transferred to Curlislé, Pa., where he will be engag- 
ed in investigations of the Hessian fly and its perasites, 
P.R. Myers; has been placed in charge of the field laboratory operated 
at Carlisle, Pa., to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Mr. W, R. Me 
Connell. ‘Mr. Myers was Mr, McConnell's assistant for many yours and is 
therefore thoroughly familiar with the work. 
D. W, Jones, formerly in charge of a portion of the giply moth parasite 
work under A, F, Burgess, has been transferred to the corn borer investi- 
gations at Arlington, Mass., under Di J, Caffrey. Mr. Jones has been pla- 
ced in charge of the foreign parasite introduction work in order to care 
for the parasitic material which is being collected by ™. R. Thompson in 
Southern Europe. Mr. Jones's transfer is effective November 1. | 
V. L.. Wildermuth recently returned to Ténre from a trip to: Yuma, Ariz, 
and reports that the infestation of Bruchophacus in the alfalfa in that 
region this year runs as high as 60 per cent or more, 
A supplementary brood of the Hessian fly occurred in northern J11li- 
nois and central Indiana after the wheat appeared above ground, and is 
causing entomologists a good deal of anxiety ‘because of the fact that 
this may neutralize their efforts in securing the planting of the wheat 
at a safe date. The extent of this supplerentary generation is still a 
matter of doubt. It seeus to have been of a fairly large ~roportion, 
Te corn borer scouting work will be practically finished during the 
early part of Noverbder. The scouts workine ‘throughout the corn belt 
States have failed so far to find any indication of the corn borer west 
of the western boundary of New York State. The infestation in western 
New York hus extended during the rast few months in a.southwesterly 
direction ulong thegishore of Lake Erie nearly to the western border of 
the State, in the towns of Portland and Westfield, No trace of the 
corn borer has been found in Erie County, Pa., where a few specimens 
were discovered by the Pennsylvania. State authorities last year. In 
the New England area the infestation has spread but slightly. The most 
notable extension has been toward the northeast, on the New Hampshire 
coast, and very recently one tovmship, that of Eliot, in Maine, has been 
found infested. On the southern border an infestation was found in the 
city of New Bedford, which constitutes the nearest approach of the in- 
sect to the Rhode Island line, so far as is known. The natural spread 
in eastern New York has been also comparatively slight this year. A re- 
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