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“at New Orleans, in which two New Orleans Normal School classes and seven New 
Orleans grade schools competed for local prizes, These exhibits are held twice 
al) 
“a year and a great deal of interest is shovm in them by all the students. 
a A. I. Fabis, of the Brownrvood, Tex., laboratory, writes that Pnylloxera 
_ caryaecaulis galls are numerous on native pecan timber in that section. He ie 
jalso states that Melanoplus differentialis is about as severe as during last 
“season, wnen this pest defoliated pecan trees adjacent to fields and in planted 
orchards, 
TRUCK=CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
‘ J. E. Graf, Entomologist, Acting in Charge 
ba Bees Cockerham, of Biloxi, Miss., and S..C. Brummitt, of Silverhill, 
_ Ala., recently met withe the authorities of the Alabama State Board of Agri- 
) culture, at Mobile, Ala., to formulate further plans for the future conduct 
» of the sweet-potato weevil eradication work in Alabama in cooperation with 
the above board. 
Je HE. Dudley, of Madison, Wis., has opened a branch laboratory for 
) the summer at Columbus, ‘/is., where extensive tests will be conducted on the 
“control of the pea aphis with various insecticides and the aphidozer which he 
_ designed last year. Any observations of particular interest on the pea aphis 
' should be sent to Mr. Dudley, at Columbus. 
N. F. Howard, of Birmingham, Aia., visited Columbus and other points 
) in Ohio, to prepere plans for the establishment of a new temporary substation 
‘at Columbus for the study of the Mexican bean beetle in its occurrence in 
Ohio. He also conferred with State and University officials. 

M. M. High, of Gulfport, Miss,, visited various points in the lower 
7Rio Grande Valley to check up the results of various exoeriments against the 
sweet-potato weevil and other truck-crop pests. 
D. E. Fink, of Riverton, N. J., visited Washington during the latter part 
of May to discuss the publication of various manuscripts which he has prepared 
on truck-crop insects, including the strawberry leaf-roller and its principal 
parasite. 
Appointments 
Rodney Cecil, who has just completed special work at Iowa State Univer-— 
sity leading to a master's degree, has been appointed Junior Entomologist at 
the Birmingham laboratory to assist Mr, Howaid in the Mexican bean beetle 
investigations. 
y T. BE. Bronson has been given temporary appointment as Field Assistant to 
ssist J. E. Dudley in the pea aphis investigations during the summer. 

