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MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOJO@YSEP 3 0 1929 y 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL eee 
partment of Acriculture 


Number 184 August, 1929 



' TRUCK CROP INSECTS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
N. F. Howard, Columbus, Ohio, in company with Rodney Cecil (Gen- 
eee NN.) Y.), L. W. Brannon (Norfolk, Va.) and P: D. Sanders and W. T. 
Henery (University of Maryland, College Park), made an inspection of the 
bean fields on the Eastern Shore of Maryland on August 12 to 15, to ob- 
serve the results that the commercial growers are obtaining in the control 
of the Mexican bean beetle. 
N. F, Howard visited Estancia, N. M., August 19, where he con- 
ferred with J. R. Douglass regarding investigations of the Mexican bean 
peetle in the West. From Estancia he went to Alhambra, Calif., where, 
in company with R. E. Campbell, in charge of the field laboratory there, 
he made a survey of bean growing. 
Mi C. Laue, in charge of the field laboratory at Walla Walla, 
Wash., attended a conference of the Governors of the Western States 
at salt Lake City, Utah, on August 26 and 27, where he delivered a talk 
on wireworms as pests on the irrigated lands of the West. 
R. A. Fulton has been appointed Agent, to undertake chemical 
studies on the sugar—beet leafhopper at Twin Falls, Idaho, 
H. P. Lanchester has been appointed Junior Entomologist and as- 
signed to work on wireworm investigations at Parma, idaho. 
C. F. Stahl has been reinstated as Entomologist and assigned to 
work on the problem of the strawberry root aphid at Chadbourn, N. C. 
C. T. McCoy, F. A. Haasis, and C. E. Post have been appointed 
temporary field assistants for duty at Twin Falls, Idaho, Berkela,;, 
Calif., and Las Cruces, N. M., respectively. 
A. J. Salle has been appointed temporary agent and assigned to 
work at Berkeley, Calif., in connection with investigations of the sugar— 
Leet leafhopper. 
H. EB. Wallace has been transferred from Twin Falls, Idaho, to 
Riverside, Calif., where he will inaugurate work on the sugar—beet leaf- 
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