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COTTON INSECT INVESTIGATIONS | 
INVESTIGATIONS OF INSECTS AFFECTING MAN AND ANIMALS 
J. L. Webb, Associate Entomologist, Acting in Charge 
W. E. Dove, who resigned from the Bureau of Entomology last October 
to pursue graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, was reappointed in 
the Bureau of Entomology on June 1. He will continue investigational work 
on insects which affect livestock, with headquarters at Dallas, Tex. 
H. M, Brundrett, Professor of Horticulture at John Tarleton Junior Agri- 
cultural College, Stephensville, Tex., has been appointed by the Bureau of 
Entomology for work at Dallas, Tex., during the summer season. He will con- 
tinue investigations, begun by him two years ago, of sprays against flies which 
affect livestock, 
On July 13 and 14, F. C. Bishopp attended the Short Course conducted by 
the Texas A. & M, College at the Medina-Hereford Ranch, and gave two talks, one. 
on the control of external parasites of poultry, and the other on the control’ 
of the screw worm, with special reference to the use of flytraps. 
Early in July F, C. Bishopp spent some time going over. the organized screw- 
worm control area in Menard County, Tex., and incidentally discussed the screw 
worm and the use of flytraps on the range before a meeting of stockmen held at 
the Martin Ranch, under the auspices of the Texas A. & M. College. 
Gonzalo Merino, of the Philippine Bureau of Agriculture, spent July 18 
and 19 at the Dallas, Tex., laboratory, studying the experimental work under way 
on insects affecting livestock and poultry. 
R. T. Alexander, R. L, Callihan, G. L. Hales, L. Johnson, L. J. Padget, 
J. ©. Pearson, and J. K. V. Stewart have been appointed to assist in the experi- | 
ments conducted at Tallulah, La., for the control of the cotton boll weevil, 
W. A, Brunson and G M. Stone will assist in boll weevil control experiments at 
Florence, S. C, 
Dr. F, A. Fenton has been transferred from the Cotton Boll Weevil project 
to the Miscellaneous Cotton Insect Project, and assigned to work on the pink 
bollworm with headquarters at Bl Paso, Tex. His present address is 1013 Mills 
Building, El Paso. 
O. G Babcock took part in the program of the Short Course held at is. 
College Station, Tex., July 25 to 29. His lecture on the external parasites €. 
of poultry proved of special interest to the large group making a special 
study of poultry raising. 
