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William T. Ham, a graduate of Sanford University, and a resident of Pull 
» Washington, has been appointed Special Field Agent in extension entomology 
or work in Washington and Oregon. 
In the last news letter the statement in regard to Mr. Fink should have 
seads "D,. HE, Fink, who has been in charge of truck crop work at the Virginia 
1 ck Experiment Station, Norfolk, Va., for several years past, will take charge 
if a new staticn to be established at Riverton, N. J." 
EXTENSION ENTOMOLOGY. 
J. A. Hyslop, Entomologist in Extension Work. 
Up to the present date project agreements for extension work in entomology 
ave been approved by 27 States. Projects have also been submitted for approval 
© 13 additional States. Formal project agreements, or amendments to existing 
ereements, provided for extension work in apiculture have been submitted to 20 
Hates. Five of these projects have been formally approved and each of the re- 
Mining 15 States has indicated a desire and a need for this extension work. 
The total number of men now in the field on extension work in entomology 
s 46, which number includes 8 research men spending part time on extension work. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS, 
W. R. Walton, Entomologist in Charge. 
W. H. Larrimer, formerly attached to the West Lafeyotte [Indiana] field 
Bboratory, has been granted an indeiinite furlough in order to enter an Officers’ 
Sp SF Se ‘ 
Yaining camp, 
R. L. Strand has been appointed Special Field Agent in the control of in- 
tects affecting cereal and forage crops and detailed for duty in Montana. His 
ppointment takes effect February 1, 1918, 
A, H. Beyer of the Columbia [South Carolina] field station visited Wash- 
“ington during January for the purpose of preparing a manuscript for publication. 
CONTRIBUTIONS ARE SOLICITED. 
Funds are needed for knitting, surgical dressings, garment making, 
housing, entertainment, books, scrap books for hospitals, and war orphans, 
CONTRIBUTIONS ARE DESIR&D FROM ALL EMPLOYEES OF THE BUREAU, BOTH IN WASH- 
INGTON AND IN TH® FIELD, ALSO FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND FROM ANYONE INTEREST- 
ED IN THE WORK. 
Send your contributions to Mrs. H. S. Bishop, Bureau of Entomology, 
and specify, if you have any preference, to what purpose you desire the 
contribution to be put. NO AMOUNT IS TOO SMALL! 
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