M. Cc. Rogers H, P. Smith 
Marion Speed M. C, Taylor 
J. C. Woodward F. G. Wrenn 















. J. D. Mitchell has begun an investigation of two rice insects which have 
mused very large losses in Matagorda County, Texas. Both species are new as to 
mimies of rice. Together they have destroyed the greater part of forty thousand 
res of rice, and threaten to spread extensively during the coming sseason. 
TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATONS 
GO. L. Marlatt, Entomologist In Charge. 
A, D, Borden who has been cooperating with BE. R. Sasscer in the greenhouse 
project of this section has been detailed to California to aid in the immediate 
future in the educational and extension work which it is hoped to conduct in cooper- 
ation with the States Relation Service with respect to citrusfumigation and other 
insect control methods. He will later take up the study of date insects, continu- 
ing the work begun several years ago by J. D. Neuls. Mr. Borden’s greenhouse 
work in cooperation with Ms. Sasscer has been of a very important and useful char- 
acter and has already resulted in a bulletin which doubtless will be of great ser- 
vice to greenhouse men, A number of minor papers will fairly well complete his 
work and leave him free to take this new detail, The greenhouse project will be 
continued by Mr. Sasscer, and a new assistant will be shortly secured to aid in 
this work. 
TRUCK CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F. H, Chittenden, Entomologist In Charge. 
Louis A. Sterns, graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and Ohio State Univer- 
sity, has been appointed for temporary work cn insects as carriers of disease in 
cooperation with the H. J. Heinz Company and the Bureau of Plant Industry at 
Madison, Wis. 
j Kirby L. Cokerham, a graduate of the Mississippi Agricultural College 
and Ohio State University, has been appointed temporary assistant at Muscatine, 
Iowa, to Collaborate with Charles BE. Smith, Scientific Assistant, to work on in- 
sects as carriers of truck crop diseases. 
Marion 8. Smith, graduate of Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina 
‘and Ohio State University, has been appointed field assistant in cooperation with 
H. K. Laramore, at Plymouth, Ind., for investigation of insects as carriers of 
cucurbit diseases. 
Harold L. Weatherby has been appointed field assistant under the direction 
of H, 0. Marsh, Rocky Ford, Colo., to assist in insects injurious to sugar beets 
and truck crops. 
Clarence Joseph Manter will assist Roy E. Campbell in work on sugar beet 
' insects and truck crop pests in the vicinity of Pasadena, Calif. 
Kennith W. Babcock has been assigned for temporary work at College Park, 
Md., on general truck crop insect investigations. 
