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FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A, L. Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 


.n O. I, Snapp, in charge of the Bureau's laboratory at Fort Valley, Ga 
peace an address before the Macon County Georgia Peach Growers! Association 
at Montezuma, Ge., on July 25, and at a peach growers! barbecue at Fort Valley, 
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E, J, Newcomer attended the sixth annual meeting of the Northwestern 
Association of Horticulturists, Entomologists, and Plant Pathologists, at 
Boise, Idaho, July 23-26, A number of valuable papers were presented, and 
field trips were made to neighboring orchards and to the entomolcgical field 
_ station of the Idaho Bxperiment Station at Parma, Idaho, where experimental 
_ work is being done in controlling the leaf-roller and the alfalfa weevil. 
| Fred EB, Brooks of the French Creek, W. Va., station spent the week 
i of August 12 collecting insect rearing material and investigating insect 
injury to native nuts in the vicinities of Oakland, Md., and Weston, W. Va. 
In both localities the branches and twigs of hazel, Corylus americana, 
_ Killed by larvae of one or more species of Agrilus, were a conspicuous form 
of injury. 
In the vicinity of French Creek, W. Va., many small trees of black 
walnut, hickory, hazel, and chestnut were partially defoliated during July 
and August by beetles of Anomala marginata Fab. In some cases, especially on 
black walnut, the beetles were very abundant and young trees were stripped of 
their leaves, 
H, S, Adair, a graduate of the Mississippi Agricultural College, 
_ has been appointed Junior Entomologist and assigned to duty at Thomasville, 
_ Ga., where he will be associated vith John B, Gill in connection with pecan 
insect investigations, 
. CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. R, Walton, Entomologist in Charge 
Prof, George A. Dean, Professor of Entomology in the Kansas Agricultural 
College and Entomologist of the Agricultural Uxoeriment Station, has been 
appointed Entomologist in charge of Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations, 
to assume his duties in the Bureau Septemver 1. Acting on the advice of his 
_ physicians, Mr, Walton found it necessary to give up the heavy work connected 
_ With the administration of this office and has taken leave in order to recuperate 
in health, | | | 
5 Professor Dean will devote considerable time this fall to visiting the 
various field laboratories engaged in cereal and forage insect investigations 
and will give special attention to corn borer operations, the grasshopper 
situation, Hessian fly work, etc. cy 

