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TRUCK-—CROP INSECTS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
W. H. White, in company with 0. E. Gahm, visited Barberton, Ohio, 
on October 1, to inspect the mushroom plant of Yoder Brothers. Mr. 
White then went to Columbus, Ohio, where he visited the field laboratory 
of this division to observe the work there on the breeding of the para— 
sites of the Mexican bean beetle, from stock collected in Mexico in the 
past season by B. J. Landis and C. C. Plummer. On October 16 he visited 
Chadbourn, N. C., to confer with W. A. Thomas and other workers at the 
field laboratory there regarding their past season's work and to discuss 
plans for the coming season, particularly on the problem of the seed— 
corn maggot. 
From October 7 to October 10 M. C. Lane and R. 8S. Lehman, of 
Walla Walla, Wash., visited the Puget Sound region of Washington and the 
vicinity of Portland, Oreg., to investigate damage by wireworms to plant— 
ings of commercial bulbs. 
N. F. Howard, Columbus, Ohio, visited Washington October 14 to con— 
fer with Bureau officials. 
On October 17 K. B. McKinney, Tempe, Ariz., visited the field 
laboratory at Clarksville, Tenn., to review with A. C. Morgan, in charge, 
his past season's work on the tobacco stalk borer. 
On October 23 K. L. Cockerham and 0. T. Deen, Biloxi, Miss., vis-— 
ited the newly established State Experiment Station at Fairhope, Bald— 
win County, Ala., to make plans for some cooperative work on the control 
of the wireworm Heteroderes laurentii Guér. 
On October 28, at the request of the State Plant Board of Missis— 
Sippi, a meeting of all the workers of that organization was held at the 
Bureau's field laboratory at Biloxi, to prepare recommendations for 
certain changes in the State regulations concerning the sweet—potato 
weevil. Those present were Clay Lyle, General Inspector, Mississippi A. 
and M. College, and F. P. Amsler, Gulfport, R. P. Colmer, Moss Point, 
Henry Deitrich, Lucedale, H. Gladney, Poplarville, J. P. Kislanko, Wig— 
gins, and J. E. Lee, Lucedale. 
O. E. Gahm, who has been engaged in investigations of mushroom 
pests, resigned October 20 to accept a position with the Chester County 
Mushroom Laboratory at West Chester, Pa. 
Probationary appointments have been given to H. A. Waters, Junior 
Entomologist, for duty at Twin Falls, Idaho, and to R. S. Lehman, As— 
Sistant Entomologist, at Walla Walla, Wash. 
E. H. Frederic, Gulfport, Miss., and D. Stoner, Sanfordy erie 
have been appointed temporary Field Assistants. 

