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Oliver T. Deen and Ferry K. Harrison have been appointed Junior 
Entomologists ani stationed at Picayune, Miss., to fill the vacancies caused 
by the deaths of the late Messrs. McLemore and Mingee. Mr. Deen had formerly 
been employed at Gulfport, Miss., and had worked on the Australian tomato 
weevil. Mr. Harrison was previously employed by the Arizona State Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, and had been stationed at Yuma, handling interstate 
traffic between Arizona and California. These men will assist K. L. Cocker- 
ham in the eradication of ‘the sweet—potato weevil. 
_ Fred P. Amsler, who had been given a temporary appointment with this 
Bureau, and who was engaged in scouting for the sweet potato weevil in 
Mobile County, Ala., and Hancock County, Miss., resigned April 4 to accept 
a permanent appointment with the Mississippi State Plant Board. 
K. L. Cockerham, Associate Entomologist, in charge of the work on 
sweet-potato weevil eradication in Mississippi and Alabama, reports that the 
infestations of the sweet-potato weevil in’the Pearl River County area have 
been so greatly reduced that we will require only 64,000 plants for this 
spring as compared with 622,000 for 1925. 
STORED-PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
EH. A. Back, in tomolozist, in Bante 
On Avril 6 Dr. Beck gave -a talk on or clothes moth problem before 
the Housekeepers! Alliance of Washington. 
By request, Dr. R. T. Cotton attended on April 17 a demonstration 
fumigation of the sample rooms of the New York factory of one of the large 
candy manufacturing companies, to determine the effectiveness of calcium 
cyanide as a fumigent under the conditions prevailing in such places. 
On April 22 nr. Back visited « large woolen yarn and cloth manv- 
facturing plant in Philadelphia, to investigate an outbreak of fabric pests, 
and to suggest methods of control suitable to local conditions. 
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TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL # FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. C. Baker, Entomologist, in Charge 
H. F. Willard, in charge of the Bureau's laboratory at Honolulu, 
is temporerily in Washington, going over plans of au work, 
H. K. Plank, formerly in charge of the Bureau's laboratory at New. 
Orleans, La., resigned from the Bureau April 8, to eccept a position with 
the Tropical Research Foundation in Cuba. . His successor has not yet been 
appointed. <A. W. Cressman has been aah oh in temporary. charge of the 
Bureau's laboratory at New Orleans. 
