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‘signed to emergency extension work in deciduous fruit insect control in Miss-~ 
issippi, Georgia and Alabama, 
Jesse M. Robinson, a graduate of the University of Miami, and a graduate 
atudent of the Ohio State University, has been appointed a special field agent 
under the Food Production Act, and will be assigned to emergency extension work 
in deciduous fruit insect control in North Carolina and Tennessee. 
William R. Martin, a. graduate of the Kansas Agricultural College, has been 
appointed a special field agent under the Food Production Act, and will be assigned 
to emergency extension work in deciduous fruit insect control in Kansas 
Miss Margaret lL. Moles, a post-graduate student at Cornell University, 
has been appointed Insect Delineator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of 
J. F. Strauss. 
FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD 
C. L. Marlatt, Chairman. 
In relation to the Texas border control, the fumigation of all cars in spec- 
dally constructed houses is being seriously considered as a means of preventing 
accidental carriage of living pink bollworm moths as well as for the destruction of 
any larvae in cotton sesd intermixed with merchandise or in the crevices of cars in 
lieu of the existing fumigation of the interior of such cars, Tentative plans for 
the construction of suitable fumigating houses or sheds and the generating aparatus 
have been prepared, Prior to the establishment of such fumigation, the Board, in 
cooperation with the Bureau of Entomology, will conduct actual tests in the fumiga- 
tion of cars to determine the practicability and efficiency of such house fumigation 
in comparison with the existing interior fumigation of cars. The exterior of any cars 
in doubt are now being cleansed by blasts of air or by water sprays, and there is also 
under consideration the exterior spraying of such cars with petroleum oils or other 
insecticides, 
The special appropriation for the establishment of a cotton-free zone and 
control of the pink bollworm in Texas and Mexico, referred to in the July letter, 
has been included and approved by both Houses in the urgent deficiency bill new in 
Congress, This assures the securing of this fund, The amount is $250,000 and will 
be available on the passage of the bill. 
Mr. Busk was authorized to make his third trip of exploration in Mexico and 
started about August 20. He reports finding the pink bollworm at a point a little 
and north of Monterey, Mexico, but that it apparently does not occur between this 
point Browmmsville. Further researches in Mexico were, however, interrupted and he 
was recalled to Texas on account of the finding of pink bollworm infestation at 
Hearne, Texas. 
The reporting Sept. 12, of a single specimen of the pink bollworm in a field 
at Hearne, Tex., adjacent to one of the mills which had received a considerable 
quantity of seed from Mexico prior to the quarantine of November of last year has 
led to thorough-going clean-up operations in respect to all cotton fields adjacent 
to this mill, and similar clean-up operations will follow adjacent to all other 
mills in Texas which have received Mexican seed. Dr. W. D. Hunter, went at once 
+o Texas to give personal direction to this work. It is believed that control | 
measures have been taken with sufficient promptness and thoroughness to prevent the 
establishment of this pest at any of these points. The clean-up at Hearne has been 
with the aid of some 25 entomologists assembled there from the forces of the Fed- 
eral Horticultural Board, the Bureau of Entomology, and the inspection and ento- 
