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INSECT PEST SURVEY 
J. A. Hyslop, in Charge 
On December 19 M. D. Leonard, of the Insular Experiment Station, 
Rio Piedras, Porto Rico, visited the Insect Pest Survey to look up dis-— 
tribution of some insect pests of Porto Rico. 
F. D. Butcher, Extension Entomologist, Iowa State College of 
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Ames, Iowa, was appointed December 15, 
1930, and M. P. Jones, Extension Entomologist, Ohio State University, 
Columbus, Ohio, was appointed January 5, 1931, to carry on extension work 
in economic entomology in cooperation with the Extension Service of the 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
J. A. Hyslop and Dr. F. M. Wadley attended the annual meetings 
of the American Association of Economic Entomologists, held in Cleve— 
land, %hio, December 30 to January 2. 

TRUCK-CROP INSECTS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
H. E. Dorst has been probationally appointed as Junior Entomologist 
at Salt Lake City, Utah. 
DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECTS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
Oliver I. Snapp spoke on "The control of the plum curculio attack— 
ing peaches" at the 35th annua: meeting of the Virginia State Horticul-— 
tural Society, in Charlottesville, on December 4. There was an attendance 
of 400. 
W. M. Davidson, of the Food and Drug Administration, visited the 
peach-insect field laboratory at Fort Valley, Ga., on December 15 and 16, 
to make preliminary arrangements for testing insecticides against the San 
Jose scale when attacking peach trees. 
On December 11 Dr. J. S. Cooley, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 
in charge of that Bureau's investigation of the perennial canker of the 
apple at Hood River, Oreg., visited M. A. Yothers, in charge of the field 
laboratory at Wenatchee, Wash., to discuss the work being done by each 
on the problem common to both. 
