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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. R. Walton, Entomologist, Acting in Charge 
Prof. Geo. A. Dean, who resigned as Senior Entomologist in . 
charge of this Division on June l, 1925, to resume his position as head © 
of the Department of Entomology of the Kansas State Agricultural College, 
Manhattan, Kans., has been appointed Collaborator in the corn borer 
work, effective July 1. | 
W. R. Walton spent July 8 to 11, inclusive, at the European 
Corn Borer Laboratory at Arlington, Mass., in conference with Messrs. 
Caffrey and Worthley, relative to the season's work. 
V. L. Wildermuth, of the Tempe, Ariz., laboratory, visited north- 
eastern Utah July 9 to 24, where, in company with Dr. I. M. Hawley, 
State Entomologist of Utah, an investigational trip of some 800 miles Was 
made by automobile into the Uinta Basin for a survey of the alfalfa seed 
chalcis situation. 
M. CG. Lane, of the Toppenish, Wash., laboratory visited southern 
Idaho recently in connection with wireworm investigations. While there 
he held a conference with Claude Wakeland, Entomologist of Idaho. 
Dr. E. G. Van Dyke, of the University of California, recently 
made a brief visit to the Toppenish, Wash., laboratory. 
Dr. W. J. Phillips visited Washington July 17, for conference 
with the Bureau specialists. 
Franklin T. Cowan has been appointed Junior Entomologist, for 
duty at the Billings, Mont., laboratory, effective July 16. 
Dd. J. Caffrey, of the Arlington, Mass., laboratory, made a brief 
visit to Washington July 28, for consultation. | ; 
SC. C. Hill, of the Carlisle, Pa., laboratory, spend a few days in 
Washington the latter part of July, in consultation with the Bureau — 
specialists. 
Prof. Herbert T. Osborn, formerly connected with this branch of the, . 
Bureau, and now located in Mexico, visited the Washington office on July 28. 
W. N. Keenan, of Canada, paid a brief visit to the European Corn 
Borer Laboratory at Arlington, Mass., during the second week of July, 
in connection with parasite introduction work. 
A conference of Federal and State regulatory officials was held on 
July 21 at Cleveland, Ohio, in connection with the enforcement of European 
corn borer clean-up regulations, and was attended by L. H. Worthley and 
D. J. Caffrey, of the Arlington, Mass., laboratory, and W. H. Larrimer, 
of the Lafayette, Ind., laboratory. © 
