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GIPSY MOTH AND BROWN TAIL MOTH INVESTIGATIONS 
A. F. Burgess, Senior Entomologist, In Charge 
uting work in the ae gone strip was greatly 
the month of November, ag it was necessary to then aa See 
mentor ‘Chris TE Sa inspection, 
All the scouting work planned for the fiscal year 1926 in the Vermont 
portion of the Pee iRe Zone strip has been completed, with the exception 
of the township of Burlington, which will be scouted during the winter 
months, and the township cf Essex, which is being scouted at the present 
time, No new egg clusters were located, and the infestations found at 
Alburg, Charlotte, Ferrisburg, Fairfield, Salisbury, Castleton and Ben— 
nington in the fiscal year 1924, and those located at Leicester, Benson, 
and Pownai, in the fiscal year 1925, have apparently been cleaned up, 
ho new egg Clusters being located in this scouting season in any of the 
previously-infested towns just mentioned, Dan nby, Fair Haven, and Essex, 
Vit., are reinfested this ye sar, single infestations being located at Danby 
and Fair Haven. ‘The scouting around the infestation at Essex has not been 
completed, but there will very likely be more than 100 new egg masses 
at this colony. Only a small “proportion of the work planned in the 
Jew York, Massachusetts and Connecticut portion of eae Barrier oes Tor 
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the fiscal year 1926 has been wig odoveeny 

FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
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A. Ll. Quaintance, Associate Chief of Bureau, in Charge 
Dr. Alvah Peterson visited the Fort Val ley,’ Gas, laboratory on 
November 12 and 13 to familiarize himself ete peach—insect problems in | 
the South. He was sei means interested in the life-history and habits of 
ee oriental ae ch noth under’ Soiithern conditions, since he has had under 
j rsey con aiasvabye work with this pest. 
Oliver I. Snapp was ‘the * spealter on east cultural Daz at: the Thomaston, 
Ga., fair on Moverber 11. A crowd of several hundred ih growers and 
others heard his sddress on the control of peach insects 
Howard Beker, Junior Entomologist, who has been associated with 
E. H. Siegler, at Sligo, Md., in connection with insecticide investigations, 
has resigned from the Bureau to accept @ position with the American 
‘ Cyanamid Company, with headquarters in Florida. 
