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Number 150. October, 1926 
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TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
Je En Graf, senior Entomologist, in Charge 
We. H. White, of Washington, D. C., visited Chadbourn, N. C., on Oc- 
tober 14 and 15, to confer with W% A. Thomas regarding the problem. of the . 
strawberry root aphis. 
At a meeting of Orange County, Calif., pepper growers, called to 
discuss the very serious damage by the pepper weevil, talks were given by 
J. GC. Elmore and R. EH. Campbell, of the Alhambra, Calif., laboratory. 
- At.the Los Angeles County Truck Crop Growers Institute, held on Oc- 
tober 25 and 26, R. E. Campbell discussed truck-crop pests and their control. 
On October e?, before the Imperial County Truck Growers Association, he 
talked on lettuce insects, Gop eae aie insects, and the pea aphis. 
F. S. Chamberlin returned to Quincy, Pla, Oct. 24, from Tampa,. where 
. he had assisted S. E. Crumb with experiments on vacuum fumigation for the 
control of the cigarette beetle. 
_ §.. Be Crumb, after finishirig his experiments at Tampa for the control 
of the cigarette beetle, returned ‘to. his official station at Clarksville, 
Tenn., on October 25. 
Je Es Dudley, Jr., Madison, Wis., attended the Wisconsin Camners ' Con+ 
ference at Milwaukee on October 27.6 
_* The temporary wpa eteats of M. W. Stone (Toppenish, pecnes and 
I. W. Berryhill (Foley, Ala.) have been terminated. It is understood that 
these men have accepted temporary appointments with the Rederes Horticultural 
Board to work in Texas on.the pink boll worn, 
‘The temporary appointment of G. A. Orum (Foley, Ala.) has been ex 
a tended in order that saveputeet tons under Mey in which he is Cones ee 
be continued, 
™, E. Bronson (Madison, Tis.) and 0. E. Gahm (Columbus, Ohio) have 
resigned to return to school, 
The temporary appointment of V. E. Romney (Twin Falls, Idaho) has 
been terminated. ; 
