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K. L. Cockerham, Associate Entomologist, writes from Biloxi, Miss., 
under date of July 17 that he had just returned from Baldwin County, Ala, 
where he looked over the cooperative work relative to the eradication of the 
sweet-potato weevil, Conditions there are most satisfactory. In the year 
1925 61 farms were found infested, but aftér close inspections in the present 
season on these and surrounding properties, no weevils have been found except 
in volunteer plants on one place. None of these 61 farms have grown potatoes 
in 1926, and it is not expected that many weevils will be found in the sec- 
tion this seasone 
Temporary appointments as Field Assistants have been given to I. We 
Berryhill and G A. Omm, graduates respectively of the Mississippi A. & Ms 
College and the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Under the direction of K. L. 
Cockerham, Associate Entomologist, Biloxi, Miss., they will assist in the 
work under way at Foley, Ala., for the eradication of the sweet—potato weevil. 
Edgar J. Udine, formerly connected with the Division of Cereal and 
Forage Insect Investigations in a temporary capacity as Field Assistant, and 
now in the service of the State Entomologist of Wyoming, and John R. Parker, 
connected with the office of the State Entomologist of Montana, have been ap= 
pointed collaborators. They will make a survey of the sugar-beet leafhopper 
(Eutettix tenella) in Wyoming and Montana. 
BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I. Hambleton, Apiculturist, in Charge 
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Visitors at the Bee Culture Laboratory in July included Dr. H. Prell, 
of Germany; Prof. James Ritter, teacher of beekeeping in St. Louis College, 
Honolulu, Hawaii; L. Ee. Dill, of the University of West Virginia, Morgantown; 
and J. M. Barr, a prominent beekeeper of Wisconsin. Last year Doctor Prell 
identified a species of Amoeba found quite commonly encysted in the Malpighian 
tubules of honeybees in colonies badly infected with Nosema apis. He has 
named this species Vahlkamfia (Malpighamoeba) mellificas 
Virgil N. Argo has resigned his temporary appointment as Field Assis- 
tant. He has been conducting investigations on Braula coeca at New Windsor, 
Md., in an endeavor to work out obscure points of its life history, more es- 
pecially in the fore part of the active season. 
