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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS, 
W. R. Walton, Entomologist in Charge, 














H. L. Dozier, located at Tempe, Ariz., resigned from the service on Dec- 
ber 15, Mr. Dozier goes to Flcrida in order to complete his work for a 
or’s degree. 
C. H. Gable, formerly Commissioner of Agriculture on the Island of Madeira, 
has been appointed specialist in alfalfa-insect investigations and assigned to the 
mpe, [Ariz.] field station. 
5 E. 0. G. Kelly, who for the past ten years besn connected with the Bureau 
of Entomology, and who for several years was in charge of the field station locate 
at Wellington, Kansas, resigned from the service on December 27 for the purpose 
entering private business. 
J. R. Horton has been placed in charge of the laboratory at Wellington, 
R. BH. Snodgrass has been assigned to duty with this branch. 
a H. L. Parker, formerly attached to the field station located at Hagerstown, 
Md., has been commissioned a first lieutenant of infantry and ordered to report 
it the Petersburg, Va., cantonment, 
H, B. Parks has been appointed Special Field Agent for duty in the Federal 
A, H. Sherwood was appointed Special Field Agent in Federal Entomological 
ension Work and will be located in South Dakota beginning about January 1. 
. Sherwood expects to pay especial attention to the control of grasshoppers in 
that State. 
| H. Le Seamans has been appointed Special Field Agent in Federal Entomolog- 
ical Extension Work for duty in Montana. 
; A conference relative to methods of Hessian-fly control will be held in. 
Washington January 3 to'5, 1918. Representatives of the Bureau of Entomology 
and the Bureau of Plant Industry will participate. 
CONTRIBUTIONS ARE SOLICITED. 
Funds are needed for knitting, surgical dressings, garment making, housing, 
entertainment, books, scrap books for hospitals, and war orphans, CONTRIBUTIONS 
IRE DESIRED FROM ALL EMPLOYEES OF THE BUREAU, BOTH IN WASHINGTON AND IN THE FIELD, 
LSO FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND FROM ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE WORK. 
Send your contributicns 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! 
