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Number 201 J anuary, 1931 
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TRUCK—CROP INSECTS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
Dr. P. N. Annand, in charge of the field laboratory at Twin Falls, 
Idaho, after attending the Cleveland meeting of the American Associa-— 
tion of Economic Entomologists, visited Washington January 1 to January 
9 for conference with Bureau officials regarding the investigations of 
the sugar-beet leafhopper. While on his return to Twin Falls he stopped 
at Columbus, Ohio, and Ames, Iowa, to confer with bureau and State workers. 
J. R. Douglass, Estancia, N. M., arrived at Columbus, Ohio, on 
January 5, to complete a manuscript on the hibernation of the Mexican 
bean beetle in the Southwest. 
W. J. Reid, jr., Charleston, S. ©., visited Washington January 12 
to. January 20, to discuss the future work on suberization of pieces of 
potato seed as a means of preventing injury by the seed—corn maggot. 
This work is being carried on in cooperation with F. C. Wright and W. M. 
Peacock, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 
M. C. Lane, in charge of the field laboratory at Walla Walla, 
Wash., en route to Washington for conference, stopped January 24 at St. 
Paul, where he discussed certain phases of the wireworm problem with Dr. 
A. L. Strand, of the University of Minnesota. Mr. Lane arrived:in Wash- 
ington on January 26. En route to Walla Walla, in returning, he visited 
Ames, Iowa, to consult with Dr. C. J. Drake and other officials of Iowa 
State College. 
At the invitation of State officials, K. L. Cockerham, in charge 
of the field laboratory at Biloxi, Miss., visited Austin and other points 
in northeastern Texas the week of January 25, to consult with the State 
workers on the eradication of the sweet-potato weevil. Work toward this 
end is being conducted in Texas by the State officials at the present 
time. He returned to Biloxi on January $l. 
E. W. Jones has been probationally appointed Assistant Entomolo-— 
gist, with duties at Walla Walla, Wash. 
W. W. Baker has been appointed Field Assistant, and assigned to 
duty at Puyallup, Wash. 
