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worm of southern California has caused heavy injury to potatoes and nursery 
stock. Corn, alfalfa, grain, and general truck crops are damaged to a less 
mt. While on this trip he conferred with M. C. Lane,of the Ritzville, 
ae, laboratory of the Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations, relative to 
reworm conditions in the Yakima Valley. 
| C. F. Stahl, Assistant Entomologist in charge of the Riverside, Calif., 
| laboratory, recently made arrangements for the planting in the Colorado area 
Boga9t some of the sugar beets which are being bred for their resistance to curly- 
es 
W. A. Thomas, Junior Entomologist in charge of the Chadbourn, N. Ce, 
laboratory, visited Pamlico County, N. C., for the purpose of checking over 
observations on the injury by the seed-corn maggot to seed potatoes. 
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Dr. A. H. Peterson, of the New Jersey Experiment Station was a recent 
| visitor at the office. 
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| D. E. Fink, Assistant Entomologist, in charge of the Riverton, N.- Je, 
1 laboratory of this Branch, was recently elected an active member of the Uni- 
; versity of Pennsylvania Chapter of Sigma Xi, the honor scientific fraternity. 
W. B. Wheelis has been appointed Junior Entomologist to assist N. F. 
Howard in research investigations on the Mexican bean beetle. 
Alfred Lutkin has been appointed Agent to assist K. , Cockerham in the 
eradication of the sweet-potato weevil in southern Mississippi in cooperation 
with the State Plant Board, 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
G. A. Dean, Entomologist in Charge 
The conference of North Central States official entomologists held at 
Columbus, Ohio, March 6 and 7, was attended by the following persons of Cereal 
and Forage Insect Investigations: D. J. Caffrey, L. H. Worthley, E.G. Brewer, 
W. do. Larrimer, F. W- Foos, A. F. Satterthvait, and Geo. A. Dean. 
D. J. Caffrey, F. W. Poos, H. N. Bartley, and Geo. A. Dean were at 
NiagéraFalls, N. Y., March 10, for a conference with the Canadian workers 
on the Buropean corn borer. 
L. H. Worthley was in Ohio and Michigan from March 6 to 15, to discuss 
plans for the Huropean corn borer control work. 
R.« A. Vickery, of the Arlington, Mass., laboratory, came to Washington 
March 20 to spend several days in preparing two or three entomological papers. 

