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SOUTHERN FIELD-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS ‘ 
J. Le Webb, Associate Entomologist, Acting in Charge q 
Dr. W. Ve. King, of Mound, Lae, spent a few days in Washington about 
the middle of April. Before returning, he consulted with officers of the 
Marine Corps at Quantico, Va., at their request, concerning the advisability 
of attempting the control of mosquitoes at Quantico by applying arsenical 
dust to breeding place's by means of airplanes. ) 
F. C. Bishopp was in washington several days about the middle of } 
April, and presented a paper on cattle grubs before a meeting of repre— 
sentatives of various associations connected with the production of hides, 
skins, and leather, and represéntatives of thé Departménts of Agriculture and 
Commerce... 
G. L. Garrison has since the beginning of April been temporarily as= 
sisting in tobacco insect investigations at Quincy, Fle. It is expec ted 
that he will continue in this work until September. ees 
we A. Stevenson and H. C. Young, of the Tallulah laboratory, have been 
assigned to work in Arizona on the Arizona cotton=boll weevil. 
Vv. V. Williams, of the Tallulah laboratory, was in the latter part 
of April assigned temporarily to work on the cotton perforator, Bucculatrix 
thurberiella, which is seriously damaging cotton in the vicinity of Calexico 
and El Centro, Calif., and in Lower California, 

DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Associate Chief of Bureau, in Charge 
-The present status of peach pests in the Georgia Peach Belt was the 
subject of an address given by Oliver I. Snapp on April 9 ata meeting of 
the Kiwanis Club of Fort Valley, with peach growers of Peach County, Ga., 
as guests. Ci diees KE ; jae 
; Dr. RB. 3. Lathrop, in charge of the Bureau's biueberry maggot ine 
vestigations in Maine, has now returned to his permanent headquarters, which 
the Bureau found it necessary to change from Harrington to Cherryfield, le. 
C. B. Nickels, a graduate of Clemson College, S.:.Cary ghee been ap- 4 
Pointed Assistant Entomologist, and is now associated with Dr. Lathrop in 
work on the blueberry maggot. 
Dr. Paul ll. Gilmer, a graduate of Monmouth college and a post- 
graduate student of the University of Minnesota, has been appoiritted Asso- 
Clate Entomologist, and is now in immediate charge of codling moth investi- 
gations in Kansas, with headquarters at Wichita. | 
