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A new motion picture relating to corn borer control in the Corn 
. Belt States will be ready for distribution probably about January 20. It 
is expected that this film will be used extensively in the educational 
campaign to be carried on by the extension forces of Ohio during the 
winter and spring of the present. year. | 
TRUCK CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. E, Graf, Entomologist Acting in Charge 
E. Graywood Smyth, Special Field Agent, connected with Truck Crop — 
Insect Investigations for more than a year and a half, most of which time 
he spent in Mexico investigating parasites and natural enemies of the 
Mexican bean beetle, has returned to New York, having completed the tem- 
porary special work for which he was engaged. 
C, H. Popenoe, of the Silver Spring laboratory, is taking special 
work at the University of Maryland, 
C.F. Stahl, Riverside, Calif., nas been authorized to proceed to 
Washington for conference with Bureau and Department officials regarding 
work with the beet leafhopper, Eutettix tenella. Mr. Stahl expected to 
stop en route at Cincinnati to attend the meetings of the American Asso- 
Ciation for the Advancement of Science. 
J. E. Graf attended the meetings of the American Association for 
the. Advancement of Science at Cincinnati. 
FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 
A, J. Flebut, who has been in charge of the Citrus Thrips. Project, 
with headquarters at Lindsay, Calif., has resigned, effective. January 1, 
192, to accept a position with the General Chemical Company, San Francisco. 
Tt is under stood that he will have charge of the insecticide department of 
this company’ succeeding the late S. W. Foster. 
, e J, Newcomer, in charge of codling moth and other apple insect in- 
| vestigations at the Yakima, Wash., station, spent a short time in Washing- 
ton, out has now returned to his official headquarters, 
O. 1. Snapp of the Fort Valley, Ga., field station has returned to 
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his headquarters after a short sojourn in Washington, investigating litera- 
ture. and other matters in conection with his work. , 
