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Baloxi, Miss., M. M. High, Gulfport, Miss., C. E. Smith, Baton Rouge, la., 
J, R. Douglass, Estancia, N. M:, R. E. Campbell, Alhambra, Calif., Walter 
Carter, Toppenish, Wash, and Messrs. Dunavan and lane, also of Toppenish, 
the last named being of the Cereal and Forage Division. 
D. E, Fink, Riverton, N. J., recently. visited Washington to consult 
Officials regarding certain phases of his work at the Riverton laboratory. 
M. M. High and 0. T. Deen, Gulfport, Miss., recently made a scouting 
trip to Alatama, Mississippi, and Florida, to'determine the distribution of 
the Australian tomato weevil. They found the weevil fairly well distributed 
in several counties of Alabama and Mississippi and in Escambia County, Fla. 
Rodney Cecil, who was transferred from Birmingham, Ala., to Geneva, N, Y., 
tO conduct insecticidal investigations on beans, is’ now engaged in outlining 
field experiments for these tests. To determine the action of arsenicals on 
Mean foliage in the North end work out safe and effective control measures 
in advance of the beetle is very essential in order that we may be in 
position to make recommendations to the New York. growers when the bean beetle 
reaches that State. These investigations will be conducted in cooperation 
Geuenpeerot. -. J, Parrott,of thre Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, N, Y. 
Walter Carter, Toppenish, Wash,, recently made a trip to southern Idaho 
-in connection with his investigations on the Sugar-beet leafhopper. 
The temporary appointments of O. T. Deen, Gulfport, Miss., and R, W. 
Haegele, Toppenish, WaSh., have been extended to complete the investigations 
already under way in which they were engaged, 
BE, i, Davis, a graduate of the Kansas Agricultural College, has been 
given a temporary appointment as Field Assistant, to assist J. E, Dudley, Jr., 
in investigations on the onion maggot, 
MP. Jones, a'graduate of the Ohio State University, has been temporarily 
appointed as Field Assistant to conduct investigations on the Mexiean bean 
beetle under the direction of Dr. DeLong, Columbus, Ohio. 
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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
G. A. Dean, Senior Entomologist, in Chaxse” 
Ww. G. Bradley, formerly employed as an assistant at the Louisiana 
State Bxperiment Station, Baton Rouge, ms accepted an appointment for duty 
in connection with the investigations of the parasites of the European corn 
borer at Arlington, Mass. Mr. Bradley expects to report for duty there 
about June 15. 
