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MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY oe iol 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE beds 

Number 125 September, 1924 
{ SOUTHERN FIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
eee Welt etaanttad S Acting in Charge 
| T. C. Barber, of the Brownsville, Base: station, has been transferred 
from Sugarcane insect investigations to work bn the cotton hopper, which will 
be conducted at the Brownsville station. 
j The Sugarcane Insect Laboratory at New Orleans, La., was moved September 
» 29 to rooms 6 and 7, Wilson Building, 8200 Oak Street, New Orleans. The new 
'.location is one block above Carrolton Avenue and can be reached by St. Charles 
_ and Tulane Belt cars, 
L. P. O’Dowd and Daniel D. Ewing, jr., have been employed as Temporary 
Assistants for the months of October, November, and December. They will 
/ assist T. E. Holloway and W. E. Haley in making observations on sugar plantations 
} during the "grinding season." J. W. Ingram, stationed at Crowley, La., will 
also assist in work on the sugar plantations this fall. 


. ~W. E. Haley recently spent some days in Mississippi, inspecting sugarcane 
for the pink sugarcane borer. He was assisted by M. M. High, of Truck Crop 
Insect Investigations, ane E. Wie Bynum, of the Mississippi Plant Board. 
4 T. E. Holloway was recently at Cairo, Ga., determining the results of 
experiments on control of the sugarcane mealybug. J. W. Ingram will soon go 
to Georgia to start more experiments. 
T. E. Holloway and W. E. Haley have arranged a number of cooperative 
experiments on control of the sugarcane moth borer in Louisiana sugar plantations. 
4 F. S. Chamberlin, of the Quincy, Fla., tobacco insect substation, was 
1 in Washington during the latter part of the month for the purpose of using the 
_ library and consulting the systematic workers in the National Museum. 
Dr. G. F, White spent two weeks in Houston and Port Lavaca, tom , assis’ 
ing Drs: W..D.. Hunter in investigations of the cotton hopper, Psallus seriatus, ag a 
possible plant disease carrier. 
