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P. R. Hickborn has been appointed as Temporary Field Assistant to assist 
Mr. Campbell in pea aphis invdstigations in the San Jose Valley of California. 
Visitors 
Prof. R. W. Harned of Mississippi, Drs. Wilmon Newell and J. H. Mont- 
gomery of Florida, and Mr. Otto Brown of Alabama were recent visitors at the 
office and conferred with Bureau officials regarding the sweet-potato weevil 
eradication in the South. 
Dr. T. J. Headles of New Jersey visited the office and discussed new and 
promising remedies for wireworms affecting truck crops. 
T. ¢. Johnson, Director of the Virginia Truck Experiment Station, Nor- 
folk, visited the office and discussed general truck-crop problems. 
Dr. Wm. Moore of the American Cyanamid Co., New York City, visited the 
office and conferred regarding the use of calcium cyanide for the control of 
miscellaneous truck-crop insects. 
W. J. Schoene, State Entomologist of Virginia, Blacksburg, visited the 
office and discussed various truck-crop insects of recent importance in Virginia. 
SOUTHERN FIELD-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
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J. L. Webb, Entomologist Acting in Charge 
Dr. F. A. Fenton of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames, has 
been engaged to take charge of the boll weevil laboratory at Florence, S. C., 
conducted by the Department in cooperation with the South Carolina Experiment 
Station. Doctor Fenton will enter upon his duties on May 1. 
Walter E. Dove, who formerly was engaged in work on insects affecting the 
health of animals at the Dallas, Tex., laboratory, has been reinstated effective 
April.7. At present Mr. Dove is conducting investigations of the cattle grub or 
Ox warble in South Dakota. Later on he will be engaged in similar investiga- 
tions in the vicinity of Dallas and will also do some work on the development of 
attractants, repellents, and larvicides in connection with screwworm control. 
Travis E. McNeel has been appointed Junior Entomologist at the Mound, La., 
laboratory, and will assist Dr. W. V. King in malaria mosquito investigations. 
Mr. 0. G. Babcock left by automobile from his field station at Sonora, 
Tex., on April 17 for Carlsbad, N. Mex., where he will spend several days work- 
ing With Mr. Vernon Bailey on an insect survey of the Carlsbad Cave. This is 
one of the largest caves in the world and will probably yield some interesting 
insect material. Mr. Babcock is to pay considerable attention to the external 
