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MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY | 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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Number 117 
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“January; 1924 
SOUTHERN FIELD-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. L. Webb, Entomologist Acting in Charge 
Dr. W. D. Hunter, B. R. Coad, and R. C. Gaines spent several days in 
Washington during the month. Mr. Coad also made a trip to New York for a 
conference with calcium arsenate manufacturers. 
Col. Clarence Ousely, formerly Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, 
has been engaged by the New Orleans Boll Weevil Control Association as 
Secretary and Manager of Activities. 
The Tobacco Insect Laboratory, Clarksville, Tenn., under the direction 
of A. C. Morgan, has submitted manuscripts for two new bulletins, entitled, 
"Control of the Tobacco Flea-Beetle in the Dark Fire-Cured Tobacco Districts 
of Kentucky and Tennessee," by A. C. Morgan and J. U. Gilmore, and "The Green 
June Beetle Larvae in Tobacco Plant Beds," by K. B. McKinney and Joe Milam. 
S. E. Crumb, of the Clarksville, Tenn., laboratory, has also submitted 
a short paper, entitled, "Odors Attractive to Ovipositing Mosquitoes," for 
publication in Entomological News. 
T. C. Barber, of the Sugar-Cane Insect Substation at Brownsville, 
Tex., has submitted a manuscript entitled "Preliminary Observations on an 
Insect of the Cotton Stainer Group New to the United States," for publication 
in the Journal of Economic Entomology. 
The Extension Service has recently released a motion picture film en- 
titled "Fighting Insects with Airplanes." This is an excellent picture, show- 
ing the operations of the airplanes in distributing poison dusts in the recent 
experiments in Louisiana for control of the cotton boll weevil and malaria 
mosquitoes. 
N. E. Winters, in charge of the cooperative boll weevil investigations 
of this Bureau and the South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, at 
Florence, S. C., has resigned, effective January 51, 1924, to accept a posi- 
tion in Argentina. — ig 
T. E. Holloway, W. E.. Haley, and J. W. Ingram attended the meeting in 
Birmingham, Ala., on January 10 and 11 of the Cotton States Entomologists. Mr. 
Ingram then came to Washington, remaining for the rest of the month for library 
work and conference with Department officials. 
