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The program as adopted for 1929 includes definite research work by 
six bureaus of the United States Department of Agriculture—-Entomology, 
Plant Industry, Chemistry and Soils, Public Roads, Animal Industry, and 
Agricultural Economics. Seven States—-Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, 
New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and New York-—-will also carry on research 
and educational work in the numerous phases of the problem. A limited 
number of copies of this program are available for general distribution. 
FOREST-INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F. C. Craighead, in Charge 
On January 2 were terminated the appointments of N. T. Mirov and 
G. R. Struble, field assistants, who assisted H. L. Person during the 1928 
field season on special studies of the western pine beetle on the Modoc 
National forest. Mr. Struble has registered for graduate study in forestry 
and entomology at the University of California. Mr. Mirov will carry on 
some special chemical work for the office of White Pine Blister Rust Control, 
located at Berkeley, Calif. 
In December, 1928, at a small mill in southern Oregon, J. BE. Patterson 
obtained records from a study of the amount of lumber salvaged from in- 
sect—killed western yellow pine. 
I. J. Hastings has been appointed Agent, to take effect January 2, 
1929. During the last season Mr. Hastings assisted F. P. Keen as field 
assistant in barkbeetle surveys on the Modoc National Forest, and wiil 
continue work on this project. 
DECIDUOUS—-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
Howard Baker, who has been associated with Dr. Paul M. Gilmer in 
work on the codling moth in Kansas, was transferred early in January to 
Shreveport, La., where he will be in immediate charge of a newly estab- 
lished field laboratory for investigations of pecan insects. This lab- 
oratory will be a branch of the one at Albany, Ga. 
C. B. Nickles, who has been associated with Dr. F. H. Lathrop in 
investigations of the blueberry maggot at Cherryfield, Me., was trans— 
ferred early in January to Brownwood, Tex., where he will be in immedi- 
ate charge of pecan-insect investigations there and in the vicinity. H. 
S. Adair, who has been in charge of the pecan-insect field laboratory at 
Brownwood, was transferred January 16 to Albany, Ga., where he will be as— 
sociated with G. E. Moznette in investigations of pecan insects. 
