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nd Subtropical Fruit Tesest Investigations, has been transferred to the Federal 
cultural Board, and will be Sueaoned at the Port of New York to assist H. B. 
am the inspection of plant imports, and to inspect and supervise the disinfec- 
Of imported cotton. The pathological inspection service has been increased by 
Gppointment of Dr. W. H. Weston, Jr., from the Western Reserve University, who 
be stationed in Washington. ; 
Among the interesting items of interception cf plant pests during the month may 
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arva taken in avocado seeds from Guate- | 
e; adults of an unidentified beetle taken in the rhyzomes of ferns from Guatemala; fe 
and an unidentified weevil aan from palm sced from Guatemala, and what appears +c | 
ee @n injurious weevil, Anthonomus sp., taken in Prunus seed from Japan.. 
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FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. D. Hopkins, In Charge. 
F. C. Craighead has returned from an inspection of the park and shade trees in 
Ghe Cities of Wilmington, N. C., Atlanta and Marietta, Ga., Knoxville and Chattanooga, 
in, The most serious trouble was found to be with the oaks which have been dying 
tor the past two or three years. The principal factors concerned in the death of. 
these trees are large root borers (Prionus sp.) associated with a parasitic disease | 
jf the roots, also certain barkbeetles in the larger branches. Experiments have been | 
Started at the Eastern Field Station to power ane the direct relation of these root 
b rers to the dying of the oaks. It is requested that field men who have an oppor- 
tunity to be present when oaks or chestnuts are thet out by the roots to look for 
these borers and send them to F. C. Craighead at East Falls Church, Va. They should 
» sent alive in tin cans containing earth. 
SOUTHERN FIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
D. Hunter, In Charges. 
© WW. D. Pierce and F. L. McDonovgh were engaged during the month in the determina- 
bion of the spread of the cotton boll weevil. Hs 
> G. D. Smith, who is stationed at Thomasville, Ga., was in Washington for a con+ 
ference on October 26. 
J. L. Webb, who has been stationed at Topaz, Calif., in work on live stock pests 
Several weeks, has returned to Washington. 
' W. BE. Dove has closed the season's work at Aberdeen, &. Dak., and has returned 
> Dallas, Texas. 
| During the months a distinguished party of South Carolinians visited Louisiana 
d parts of Mississippi for the purpose of obtaining first-hand information regard- 
the boll weevil. The party was headed by Governor Manning and included the Presi- 
2 of the A. and M. College, the Director of the Experiment Station, and Chairman 
f the Board of Trustees of Clemson College, and representatives of the State Bankers’ 
ud Cotton Seed Crushers' Associations, and several others. It was accompanied 
broughout its trip by W. D. Hunter. The party made a thorough study, especially 
th reference to the steps which can be taken'in South Carolina, to avoid the los 
d demoralizations which have praztically invariably followsd in the wake of the 
1 weevil. It is anticipated that the full report of the Commission, which is to 
written by Dector Riggs, President of Clemson College, will be en historic docu- 
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