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| | UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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SOUTHERN FIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. L. Webb, Entomological Assistant Acting in Charge 
} HE. R. Barber reports from Mercedes, Cuba, that he finds ample opportunity 
for securing parasites of the sugar-cane moth borer, but that living conditions 
are very poor. 
: Geo. W. Goergens, of the Motion Picture Laboratory, spent the period: from 
May 28 to June 6 inclusive with F. C. Bishopp at Dallas, Tex., for the purpose 
of completing certain films, partially made last year, which depict control 
measures against insects injurious to domestic animals. 
H. W. Lee has resigned from the boll-weevil force to accept a position 
with the Niagara Sprayer Company. | 
The following appointments have been made: 
Joe Milam, field assistant, Clarksville, Tenn., laboratory, effective 
- L. Z. Naylor, entomclogical laboratory assistant, boll weevil laboratory, 
effective May 16. 
f Jos. D. Smith, scientific assistant, Clarksville, Tenn., laboratory, 
effective June 1, . 
! J. W. Hill, field assistant, Clarksville laboratory, effective June 2, 
FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD 
C. L. Marlatt, Chairman 
GO. L. Marlatt attended the meetings in Riverside, Cal., during Horticul- 
tural Week, May 26 to 31 inclusive, ‘and presented papers on the pink bollwornm, 
an introduced pest of cotton, and how it is being eradicated from the cotton 
fields of Texas. He also made addresses before the fruit growers, farmers, 
and county horticultural commissioners. fe 
0. D. Deputy, formerly in charge of the work at Laredo, Tex., has been 
made assistent inspector in charge of all Border fumigation work. EH. 8. Jewell 
3 been placed in charge of the work at Laredo. , ; 
| Harry Sargent, a graduate of the University of California, after a month's 
training under Frederick Maskew, at San Francisco, Cal., has been stationed at 
Seattle, Wash., to assist A. G. Webb with port inspection. In the future it is 
planned to guard this port carefully to prevent the entry of injurious insects 
and plant diseases either in ships’ stores, passengers’ baggage, or merchandise. 
C. A. Bennett, a graduate of the New Hampshire Agricultural College, has 
been appointed as an entomologieal inspector, with assignment to Washington, 
D. C. Mr. Bennett has very recently returned from France, where he saw active 
