ono: 
Geo. H. Rea, of Reynoldsville, Pa., and Herbert D. Smith, of Wash- 
ington, D. C. were visitors at the Laboratory in January. 
Kenneth Hawkins, of the G. B. Lewis Co., Watertown, Wis., visited 
the Intermountain Bee Culture Field Station on January 3, while on his way 
to Denver and points farther south. 

TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
O. E. Gahm, formerly assigned to the Mexican bean beetle labor- 
atory at Columbus, Ohio, has been transferred to Arlington, Va., effec- 
tive Jan. 1, where he will undertake an investigation of mushroom pests, 
in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry and the Pennsylvania State 
Agricultural College. 
Joe Milam, who was temporarily transferred to the Plant Quarantine 
and Control Administration, for work on the pink bollworm in the Southwest, 
returned to the Bureau on January 1, and is now assigned to the field lab-— 
oratory at Tempe, Ariz. 
The Mexican bean beetle laboratory, which was established at Bir- 
mingham, Ala., early in 1921, when the first outbreak of the beetle was 
discovered in the Southeast, has been closed. L. W. Brannon, who has been 
in charge of this laboratory, has been transferred to Norfolk, Va., where a 
new sublaboratory will be established, effective January 1, in cooperation 
with the Virginia Truck Experiment Station there. 
On January 8 W. H. White, of Washington, D. C., and 0. E. Gahn, 
of Arlington, Va., visited Kennett Square, Pa., to confer with C. A. Thomas, 
who represents the Pennsylvania State College in the cooperative investiga— 
tion of mushroom pests. 
About the middle of January Walter Carter returned from Washington 
to the field laboratory at Twin Falls, Idaho. En route he stopped at Mad- 
ison, Wis., where he conferred with Prof. H. F. Wilson, J. E. Dudley, Jr., 
and others. At St. Paul, Minn., he conferred with Prof. R. N. Chapman and 
others. 
N. F. Howard, of Columbus, Ohio, attended the convention of the 
National Canners Association, held at Chicago, Ill., January 22 and 23, 
w here he discussed the problem of the Mexican bean beetle. 
J. L. Tate has been given an appointment as field assistant at the 
field laboratory at Gulfport, Miss., for work on the vegetable weevil, 
under the direction of M. M. High. 
