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TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
W. A. Thomas, in charge of the field laboratory at Chadbourn, 
N. C., visited Washington May 3 to 6, to discuss the work being con- 
ducted at that laboratory. 
B. J. Landis, Columbus, Ohio, who will shortly leave for Mexico 
to investigate parasites of the Mexican bean beetle, visited the Gipsy— 
Moth Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass., the Corn-Borer Laboratory, 
Arlington, Mass., and the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory, Moorestown, N. J., 
early in May to study methods of rearing and handling parasites. He 
visited Washington May 17. 
Temporary appointments as field assistants have recently been 
given C. Mattsson and H. E. Dorst, assigned to duty at Richfield, Utah, 
H. A. Waters and A. C. Cole, Jr., assigned to duty at Twin Falls, Idaho, 
Joseph Hamilton, assigned to duty at Tempe, Ariz., and L. L. Odom, as— 
signed to duty at Grand Bay, Ala. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge 
C. M. Packard, in charge of investigations of the Hessian fly, 
with headquarters at West Lafayette, Ind., visited the field labora- 
tory ‘at Carlisle; Pa., on May 20 and 21, and the Washington oftieas 
on his way home, on May 22 and 23. 
Stewart Lockwood, formerly in charge of the field laboratory at 
Billings, Mont., has resigned from the service, effective May 6. 
During the week of May 15 D. W. Jones and Chas. A. Clark, of the 
field laboratory at Arlington, Mass., visited the field laboratories 
at Silver Creek, N. Y., Sandusky and Toledo, Ohio, and Monroe, Mich., 
on business relating to parasites of the European corn borer. On May 
22 they left the region about Lake Erie and returned to Arlington. 
Gordon W. Haug and Frank Lieberman have accepted three months’ 
appointments as field assistants at Salt Lake City, Utah, effective 
May 27 and May 15, respectively. 
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r. W. H. Larrimer spent May 24 to June 1 driving through the 
districts infested by the European corn borer in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and 
Michigan, in search of first-hand information on the status of the 
clean-up this year, as compared with that of former years. 

