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Oliver I. Snapp, in charge of-tiie-Fort Valley, Ga., laboratory, writes 
that paradichlorobenzene was applied in Georgia peach orchards during the 
month under excellent weather conditions. The generation of the gas was 
sufficiently rapid to produce borer mortality within i4 days. As usual, 
large quantities of the chemical were used this year in the peach belt. 
A majority of the peach growers in Georgia will use lubricating-oil 
emalsion this winter instead of the lime sulphur for scale control. One 
hondred thousand gallons of the stock emulsion will in all vrobability be 
required to meet the needs of Georgia growers. 
TRUCK CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
Je He Graf, Entomologist, in Charge 
Je H. Graf, in charge of Truck-Crop Insect Investigations, and C. G. 
Woodbury, of the National Canner's Association, Washington, D.C,, attended 
@ meeting of the Wisconsin Canners! Association held at Madison October 28 
to 30, at which were pea growers, canners, and State and Government investi- 
gators. J. He Dudley, Jr., Associate Entomologist, Madison, presented a 
report on the results of the past season's work, exhibited the latest improved 
type of aphidozer, a mechanical device for collecting the pea aphis, and showed 
the methods in use for combating this pest. 
Je Re Douglas, Assistant Entomologist, Estancia, N. Mex. while doing 
some hibernation work near the mountains had an opportunity of cooperating 
with the Forest Ranger in controlling a small forest fire in the Manzano 
National Forest. Mr. Douglas reports remarkable success in coloring beetles 
with a modification of the Dudley formula, the color remaining on the beetles 
for over two months without injuring the insects. 
K. Le Cockerham, Associate Entomologist, Biloxi, Miss., visited Mobile, 
Ala., on October 10, for the purpose of conferring with Otto Brown, Chief of 
the Division of Plant Industry of Alabama, relative to plans fror cooperative 
work on the sweet-potato weevil eradication project in that State during the 
Tali. ji ; 
Present indications are that the sweet-potato crop in southern Mississippt 
will be the shortest since 1919, primarily on account of the exceedingly long 
drought of the past summer, Mr. Cockerham reports that the number or. farms 
~ infested with the steet-potato weevil in Mississippi will be far less than 
for any previous time within five years. A most intensive clean-up and 
destruction campaign will be waged in Pearl River County, Miss., and in Mobile 
County, Ala., during November and December. 
On October 20 two Temporary Inspectors were anpointed for sweet-potato 
weevil scouting in Mobile and Baldwin Counties, Ala., with S. C. Brummitt. One 
of these men is F. R, White, who previously spent two years in this work in 
Mississippi. Sere e iy . | 
