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| The following nave been given appointments for sumer work on 
boll Weevil control work at the Cotton Insect Field Station, Tallulan, 
Mees <A, J. Chapman, Alex Clark, J. R, Cole, R. C. Dancy, S. B. Hen- 
Zooces, R. L. Hester, E, BE. Holley, J. E, duapnries, J. W. Ingran, 
I. T, Jones, W. H. May, As L. Monroe, Wim. D. Reed, Paul D, Sanders, 
ds I. Wilson, T. L. Wilkerson, L. P. Hodges and H. ¢, Young have 
been given probational appointments, 
The following have been given sumer appointments on tobacco in- 
sect control work at the Tobacco Insect Field Station, Clarksville, 
Tenn.: E, F. Haden, H. C. Plumer, M. L. MacQueen, T. P. Weakley, 
W. B. Weakley, and L. N. Judah, 
Dr. Carroll G,. Bull, W. C. Gideon, and J. A. Yelch have been given 
tanporary appointments on the malaria mosquito work which is being con- 
_ducted at the Mound, La., Laboratory. 
R. W. Moreland, J. W. Couch, and Rowland Cowart of the Tallulah 
Laboratory force have recently resigned. 
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FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS, 
A. L. Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 
. Ee J. Newcomer reports that the bureau's efforts in importing cod- 
ling moth parasites from the East for establishment in orchards around 
Yakima, Wash., under way for the past two or three years, have been suc- 
cessful, in the case of one species at least, Bassus carpocapsae, which 
has been secured from band material collected last fall, 
One of the best peach crops ever produced in Georgia has just been 
harvested. The progress made in overconing the heavy curculio infesta- 
tion has been very gratifying. All varieties through to the close of 
the Elbertas have been unusually free from curculio larvae. Careful in- 
vestigations of comercial orchards treated according to the advice of 
Department and State Specialists showed tuat curculio damage was not 
greater than an average of one wormy peach in each 5/8-bushel basket. In 
these orthards dropred fruit had been picked up and destroyed and culti- 
vation for the destruction of pupae had been practiced in addition to very 
thorough spraying. 
The San Jose scale appears to be on the increase in the Georgia peach 
belt. 
Chester I, Bliss, of Columbia University, has been appointed field 
assistant at the Sandusky, Onio, laboratory and will assist in grape insect 
work, 
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