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TRUCK-—CROP INSECTS 
J. E, Graf, in Charge 
Cc. C. Plummer, Field Assistant, left Columbus, Ohio, June 14, 
for Mexico City, Mexico, where he arrived June 17. He will assist B. 
J. Landis in the collection, shipping, and study of parasites of the 
Mexican bean beetle, 
W. A. Thomas, Chadbourn, N. C., visited the berry—-growing sections 
of the Gulf States during the second week in June to determine the im— 
vortance of the strawberry weevil (Anthonomus signatus) in these centers 
of early production of strawberries. Incidentally, he visited the field 
laboratories at Biloxi and Gulfport, Miss. 
M. M. High, in charge of the field laboratory at Gulfport, Miss., 
reports that R. W. Harned, D. W. Grimes, M. L. Grimes, T. F. McGehee, 
and G. F. Arnold, of the Mississippi State Plant Board, visited that lab— 
oratory on June 14. 
P. K. Harrison, formerly employed at Picayune, Miss., but who was 
granted leave without pay, received his Master's Degree from the Univer— 
sity of Maryland, June 10, and has been reinstated, effective June 18, 
as Assistant Entomologist at the new field laboratory at Fairfax, 5S. C. 
J. (©. Chamberlin, R. A. Fulton, and C. F. Henderson, of Twin 
all Idaho, S. E. Crumb, C. W. Getzendaner, and W. W. Baker, Puyallup, 
Wash., M. C. Lane, Walla Walla, Wash., F. H. Shirck, Toppenish, Wash., 
nd J. C. Elmore, Santa Ana, Calif., employees of this division, were 
authorized to attend the meeting of the American Association of Econo— 
mic Entomologists at Eugene, Oreg., June 19 and 20. 
R. E. Campbell, who has been on leave without pay, in order to 
take graduate work at the University of Minnesota, returned to his offi- 
Cial duties at Alhambra, Calif., on June 2l. 
In the fourth week of June N. F. Howard and Alvah Peterson, of Co-— 
lumbus, Ohio, made a scouting trip to Birmingham, Ala., and other points 
in the Southeast, to get first-hand information on the degree of infesta— 
tion by the Mexican bean beetle, with a view to the initiation of large-— 
scale tests in control. 
J.N. Tenhet, who has been engaged in the study of wireworms affect— 
ing tobacco at Chadbourn, N. C., was transferred on June 27 to Fairfax, 
S. C., where he will take charge of the new field laboratory established 
there to investigate the sandy—land wireworm. 
C. F. Stahl, who has been at Chadbourn, N. C., studying insects 
affecting strawberries, was transferred to Sanford, Fla., June 30, to 
succeed W. E. Stone, who has been transferred to Mexico City. Mr. Stahl 
will be in charge of investigations of celery insects. 
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