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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
Ge Dy: sore Senior “antomolozist, in Charge 
W. D. Whitcomb, formerly employed under Dri A. Li Quaintance in Fruit 
Insect Investigations, has accepted a transfer to this section, effective 
April 2. CO investigate insecticides for the control of the European corn 
borer. ; 
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» H. Worthley, in charge of ‘the corn-borer control operations, visited 
Betas and the western area during the week of April 6 to consult State 
officials and arrange plans for the control work during the approaching season. 
W. R. Walton, Acting in Charge, visited Staten Island, N. Y., April 6 
and 7, in company with L. H. Worthley, to inspect the clean-up work being 
conducted oh the northeastern side of Staten Island, where an incipient 
infestation of the corn borer was discovered last fall, As a regmlt of con- 
tinuously favorable weather, the work was finished expeditiously, and excellent 
seule were expected. A similar operation in Brooklyn was finished about 
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Ir Phillips, in charge of the Charlottesville, Ya., laboratory, 
visited Washington April 21 for the purpose of consulting specialists and 
arranging plans for the season's work, Mr, Phillips reports that the extra- 
Ordinarily dry conditions in the vicinity of Charlottesville have interfered 
seriously with agricultural operations, especially vlowing. 
#. W. Poos, in charge of the Sandusky substation, attended the meet- 
ing of pus Ohio Academy of Science at Wooster on April 3 and 4, 
D. J. Caffrey, in charge of the corn-borer research work, has been 
located at Oak Harbor,-.Qhio, for several weeks, where he is cooperating with 
the Ohio State Experiment Station in Poe plowing experimemts to determing 
the effect of plowing down cornstalks and stubble during the spring. Mr. Caffre: 
expects to remain at Oak-Harbor until eee Jute > le 
Jenks, Horton-and.J. S$, Pinckney were recently in consultation with the 
extension authorities of Oklahoma regarding the scrious grasshopper outbreak 
hear Lawton. Mr. Horton has planned to conduct control experiments in connectior 
with the control work undertaken by the State extension axthorities. 
Prof, George A. Dean visited Washington April 25 to 29, to attend the 
meetings of the National Research Council and the National Academy of Sciences, 
and to consult regarding the conduct of the work of this Division, 
