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-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
Ae L. Quaintance, Associate Chief of Bureau, in Charge 
*E. T. Evans, who has been assisting in the oriental peach moth in- 
vestigations at Riverton, Ne Js, has resigned from the service to return 
to college. 
O- We Carothers, who has been assisting in spraying operations in 
connection with pecan insect investigations at Brownwood, Tex., has re~ 
Signed from the service, to teach school at Brownwood, 
Miss Leola J, Kruger, who has been assisting in investigations of 
Coccidae, has resigned from the service, and Miss Grace E. Glance, a 
graduate of the Pennsylvania State College, has been appointed Junior 
Entomologist to take her place. -° | 
Oliver I. Snapp, in charge of the Fort Valley, Ga., laboratory, 
delivered an address on "Post harvest control of the curculio" at the 
fiftieth annual meeting of the Georgia State Horticultural Society in 
Athens, Gas, on August 2h. . : 
STORED-PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
E. A. Back, Entomologist, in Charge 
The Secretary of Agriculture has been advised by D. Kk. Grady, 
Secretary of the Dried Fruit Association of California, that this Asso- 
ciation has appropriated $1,000 to aid the Bureau of Intomlogy in its 
investigation of dried-fruit insects, This action duplicates that taken — 
last year, and is an excellent endorsement of the work being conducted by 
Je C. Hamlin, who is in field charge of the investigations. Mr. Grady _ 
writes: "The Association has been very much interested in the investigation 
as it has developed to date, and is hopeful that the findings during the 
coming year will prove of material assistance to us in solving our infesta- 
tion problem." 
On July 31 W. D. Reed, of the Dried Fruit Laboratory, returned to 
Fresno after having surveyed the needs of a large terminal company of the 
Bay district in connection with the sterilization of stored products. On 
his return trip Mr. Reed conferred with officials of the Prune and Apricot 
Growers! Association at San JoSee 
Dr. R. T. Cotton has been on leave of absence since August 15, with 
headquarters at Ithaca, N. Y., making inspections of large Wool Warehouses 
and carpet and rug factories at Arcterdam, N. Y., for the purpose of giving 
advice on the protection of these products from clothes moths. 
