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MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
UNITED STATES” RTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Number 128 



December, 1924 


FRUIT) INSECT INVESIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Senior Entomologist, in Charge. 
Oliver I. Snapp was at A. & M. College, Miss., November 17 to 19 to - 
discuss recent developments in peach insect control in the South before the 
annual meeting of the workers of the State Plant Board of Mississippi, and 
to agsist in the organization of fruit insect investigations in Mississippi. 
B. A. Porter, of the Vincennes, Ind., laboratory, spoke December 2 at 
Grand Rapids, Mich., before the Michigan State Horticultural Society, on 
lubricating-oil emulsion. He also talked before the Indiana Horticultural 
Society at Indianapolis, December 10, on fruit insect conditions in southern 
Indiana. 
G. F. Moznette, in charge of the Bureau's laboratory at Miami, Fla., 
has been dispatched by the Federal Horticultural Board to South America for 
“the purpose of investigating fruit conditions and to determine the presence 
Or absence of fruit flies and other injurious insects. He will be in 
South America approximately three months. 
C. H. Alden, who is assisting 0. I. Snapp at Fort Valley, Ga., in con- 
‘nection with peach insect investigation recently visited Washington, and 
has now returned to his permanent headquarters at Fort Valley. 
W. W. Yothers, in charge of the Bureau's laboratory at Orlando, Fla., 
spent a few days in Washington and has now returned to his headquarters at 
Orlando. 
i A. W. Cressman, assisting H. K. Plank in connection with camphor 
scale investigations, spent several weeks in Washington on bibliographic 
.work and has now returned to his headguarters at New Orleans. 
A. J. Ackerman, H. K. Plank, G. A. Runner, and Dr. B. A. Porter 
attended the meetings of the American Association of Economic Entomologists 
and have now returned to their permanent field headquarters. 

TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. E. Graf, Entomologist, in Charge 
Field men of this division who attended the annual meeting of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science included N. F. Howard, 
