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George I, Reeves, in charge of the alfalfa weevil investigations, 
visited Washington during the month of December for the purpose of 
consultation and preparation of manuscript. Mr. Reeves returned to 
Salt Lake City shortly before the holidays. 
J. R. Horton, George G. Ainslie, and Ww, B. Cartwright visited 
the Washington office during early January subsequent to the Hessian 
fly conference held at Carlisle, Penn. 
L. P, Rockwood, in charge of the laboratory at Forest Grove, Oreg., 
arrived in Washington about the middle of December for the purpose of 
preparing 2 manuscript on the clover root-borer and for consultatim 
with the Chief of the Bureau. During his stay, Mr. Rockwood 
attended the Hessian fly conference at Carlisle, Penn., returning 
to Forest Grove about January 20, 
The annual conference ef Hessian fly workers of the branch 
of Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations was held at Carlisle, 
Penn., on January 2. The following persons were in attendance: 
‘W..R. Walton and Joe §, Wade, Washington, D. C.3; W. H. Larrimer 
and W. B. Cartwright, West Lafayette, Ind.; J, R. Hortm, Wichita, 
Kans.; A. F, Satterthwait, Webster Groves, Mo.; G. G. Ainslie, 
Boonville, Tenn.; W. J. Phillips; Charlottesville, Va.; L.. P, 
Rockwood, Forest Grove, Oreg.; and P, R. Myers. C. C. Hill, anda 
a EH. D. Smith, Carlisle, Penn. It was the unanimous opinion of those 
™ present that the conference had attained valuable results and that 
i Beimilar conferences should be held annually in the future. 
> K. W. Babcock of the Arlington laboratory visited Washington 
during tne week of January 16-21, in comection with his ecological 
‘studies of the corn borer. While in Washington, Mr. Babcock consulted 
with various specialists of the Department regarding several phases 
of this work, and was able to secure especially valuable information 
. from the research workers of the Weather Bureau. 

SOUTHERN FIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. L. Webb, Entomologist Acting in Charge 
¥. C.. Bishoppof the Dallas, Tex., laboratory, following 
attendance at the Toronto meeting, visited several points in 
New York in connection with the ox-warble work being done in 
that State. Coming on to Washington he spent a few days conferring 
with various Department officials on phases of the work on 
investigations of insects injurious to animals. He then 
returned to Dallas, making a few stops en route to investigate 
ox-warble conditions. 

Geo. A. Maloney of the Boll Weevil Laboratory delivered an 
dress on boll weevil control before the Rhode Island Textile 
fanufacturers at Providence, on January cl. 
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