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FRUIT INGECT INVESTIGATIONS nt 
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4 wu. Quaintance, Senior Entomologist, in Charge ' 
fred H. Brooks, in charge of the station at French Creek, W. Va., read 
a paper on nut insects at a mecting of the Northern Nut Growers! Association 
held in New York City, September 3 to 5. 
The temporary appointment of B. §. Brown, jr., who has been assisting 
with life-history studies of peach insects at the Fort Valley, Ga. , lavora= 
tory, terminated September 16. ifr. Brown is now with Dr. Hunter's pink boll- 
worm force in Texas. 
At the forty-ninth annual meeting of the Georgia State Horticultural 
Society, held in Griffin, Ga., August 6, Oliver I. onapp gave an address on 
the year's development in peach insect control. 
vudging from present indications, a half million pounds of paradichloro- 
benzene for peach borer control will be needed again this fail to supply the 
demand in the Georgia peach belt. 
company with N.S. Martin, Inspector in charge of the New Orleans 
tae Louisiana State Entomologist, H. K. Plank visited the camohor 
&ic infestations at Hammond, La., and also inspected a number of citrus 
antings around Covington, La. A large acreage, approximately 890 acres, 
has recently been planted to the savsuma orange, chiefly in the parishes of | 
Tahkgipohca, St. Tammany, and Washington, and although about 25 per cent of the 
t were lost during the freeze of last January, those remaining are in very 
ition despite the prolonged drought and heat of the summer just past. 
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On September 8 FP. C. Bishopp was a caller at the Camophor Scale Labora- 
tory at New Orleans, and, besides informing himself.as to its work, took notes 
Oh some Wire-screen experiments being conducted there. 
On September 16 Dr. F. A. Fenton, of the Boll Weevil, Laboratory at 
Florence, S. C., was another visitor at the Camphor Scale Laboratory. Dr. 
fenvon spent some time looking over the camphor scale situation and the life 
history and control experiments under way. 
i. J. Newcomer, of the Yakima, Wash., laboratory, spent the week of 
August e& to 31 investigating the occurrence of red spiders in the orchard 
districts of North-central Washington and the Okanagan Valley of British Colum- 
bia, and aso attended the anmal meeving of the Northwestern Association of 
Horticulturists, Entomologists, and Plant Fathologists, at Penticton, B. C., 
August 26 to £9. | 
Mi. A. Yothers, of the Yakima, Wash., laboratory, devoted the time from 
August 31 to September 3 to his investigation of the narcissus bulb flies in 
the Puget Sound region. 
