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FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A, L. Quaintance, Associate Chief of Bureau, in Charge 
Dr. A. C. Baker has been detailed by the Secretary of the Depart- 
ment to the Personnel Classification Board, where he will be engaged for 
some time in the preparation of specifications covering the character 
of work and the required qualifications for positions in the field of 
éntomology and those of a related character. | 
QO. I. Snapp, in charge of the Bureau Laboratory at Fort Valley, 
Ga., writes that the best peach crop that has ever been grown in Georgia 
has just been harvested. Over 11,000 carloads were shipped without a 
single complaint of curculio damage. The curculio is under complete con- 
trol. Five years ago the Georgia peach crop was ruined by it. Results — 
from peach orchards dusted from airplanes show that the new method was 
as effective against the curculio this year as the ground machine method. 
Mr. Snapp adds that four generations of the Oriental peach moth 
have already been reared this season. 
Dr. F. H. Lathrop, a graduate of Clemson Agricultural College, 
who obtained his doctor's degree from the Ohio State University, has 
been appointed Entomologist and placed in immediate charge of the 
Bureau's investigations of the blueberry maggot in Maine. Head- 
quarters will probably be at Harrington or some point near by. 
R. F. Sazama, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
has been appointed Junior Entomologist and will assist Dr. Lathrop in 
the blueberry maggot investigations. 
J. B. Gill, for a long time connected with the Bureau and engaged 
in pecan insect investigations, has resigned to enter commercial work. 
His resignation becomes effective at the close of August 10. 
J. Everett Bussart is assisting this summer with the work of the 
laboratory at Vincennes, Ind. Mr. Bussart is a student at the University 
of Illinois, and returns to the University this fall to complete his. 
undergraduate work. 
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BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I. Hambleton, Apiculturist, in Charge 
Jas. I. Hambleton has finished this season's investigation at 
Lewes, Del., on the relation of nectar flows to the flight activities 
of the honeybee. The following temporary field assistants employed 
in this work have resigned: Miss Dorothy Black, Washington, D. C.; 
and Mrs. Dorothy P. Cooper, Mrs. Mary Katheryn Lindell, and W. Alderson 
Lynch, all of Ocean View, Del. 
