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Prickly Pear Board of Australia, was reinstated in the Department on May a 
. asSigned to duty at the Boll Weevii Laboratory at Talluleh, La. Mr. 
amlin is to give attention to the chemotropic responses of the boll weevil. 
r B. R. Coad and T. P. Uassidy were in Washington for a few days early in 
May in connection with boll weevil work, 
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if Dr. F.A, Fenton, recently appointed and assigned to biological work 
on the boll weevil at Florence, S. C., was in Vashington May 3 to 5 for consul- 
tation with the Chief of the Bureau, 
~ Alan P. Dodd, who has been sent from Australia to take up the work 
on cactus insects recently relinquished by J. C. Harlin, had a conference with 
the latter and Dr. J. D. Hunter at Velivlah, La., on Mey 20. He visited 
Washington later, 
U hesy The March issue of the CRE Ct pie Journal of Trovical Medicine (Vol. IV, No. 
"2) contains en article by Ceo. H. Bra ley cf the Mound, La., laboratory, entitled 
"The aes breecing piaces of et cs mosouitoes in the vicinity of Mound, 
Louisiana. 
A? L. F. Greer was appointed Temporary Field Assistant at the Boll Weevil 
Laboratory, effective May 15. 
F. S. Chamberlin reports that in spite of a heavy infestation of tobacco 
budworms in the south Georgia flue~cured tobacco region excellent control is 
"being obtained where growers are using the poison mixture devised by the Bureau 
fof Entomology. The mixture consists of 1 part by weight of arsenate of lead 
)to 75 parts corn meal. Weekly applications appear to be sufficient for con= 
trol of this type of tobacco, 
FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F. C. Craighead, Entomologist in Charge 
< Dr. Craighead spent several days during May in the vicinity of Asheville, 
W. C., examining southern pine beetle outbreaks and control work conducted 
during the previous winter. 
A. H. MacAndrevs has been appointed temporary field assistant and will 
e stationed near Asheville for the summer months. He will conduct certain 
‘investigations on the life history of the principal pine insects in this region, 
Part of his work is to be associated vith that of the Appalachian Forest 
Experiment Station. 
Bs Dr. 2. BE. Snyder, in cooperation with the metallurgical laboratory of 
the Bureau of Standards, United States Departiment of Commerce, is conducting 
tests with various metals and alloys sprayed on wood and lead to protect these 
substances against the attacks of termites and powder-post beetles. Control 
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