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COTTON INSECTS 
B. R. Coad, in Charge 
J. W. Ingram, Assistant Entomologist at the New Orleans field 
laboratory, visited the Delta Laboratory on June 24 and 25 to obtain 
information on the technique of studying certain minute insects that 
injure the roots of sugarcane. 
On June 2 C. H. Gaddis, Entomologist of the Georgia State Board 
of Agriculture, was a visitor to the field laboratory at Tallulah. 
In June Mr. Coad spent some days at College Station, Tex., com- 
pleting arrangements for the cooperative project undertaken with the 
entomologists of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. This pro- 
ject is primarily concerned with control of the cotton bollworm, but 
also deals with the problem of control measures for simultaneous infesta- 
tions of cotton by several pests, such as have been occurring in central 
Texas in recent years. E. W. Dunnam, who spent last winter on leave, 
completing work for his doctorate, has been returned to the service 
and permanently assigned to College Station for work on this project. 
R. W. Moreland, of the field laboratory at Tallulah, has also. been as-— 
‘Signed to College Station for the present season. 
Near the end of June, Messrs, McGinley and Payne visited Kansas 
City and Wichita to inspect airplanes offered for purchase by the De- 
partment of Agriculture. 
Mr. Coad recently visited the State and Federal Experiment Sta- 
tions at Poplarville and McNeill, Miss., on business relating to cot-— 
ton insects there. 
H. C. Young, of the field laboratory at Tucson, Ariz., has re- 
turned to Oklahoma, to take charge of field work in experiments on 
control of the boll weevil. These experiments have been carried on for 
the last two years in cooperation with the Oklahoma Experiment Station 
and Extension Service. 
G. L. Smith has returned to the field laboratory at Tallulah from 
Presidio, Tex., where he was scouting for the pink bollworm during the 
last winter. 
The following temporary Field Assistants were appointed and re- 
ported for duty in the month of June: At Florence;)so.0C. 2M Re ear rei 
heev. Wolch, M. C. Brunson, jr., R. J. Groover, and Ek. E. Rogers; at 
Tallulah, La., James Watkins, R. P. Patty, G. W. Davis, Hi) (Datta ie 
H. Stubblefield, C. F. Rainwater, F. D. Smith, R. W. Bunn, H. B. Mills, 
K. H. Smith, P. H. Berry, H. R. Johnson, H. 8S. Young, and T. F. Hender- 
son. 
