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Dr. E. F. Phillips, of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., spent 
several days at the laboratory early in April, consulting material in 
the bibliography. 
E. R. Root, senior member of the A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio, 
visited the laboratory April 18 to discuss various beekeeping matters. 
He has recently made extended studies of beekeeping in California, Mexico, 
and Central America. 
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wheeler, commercial beekeepers, of Oberlin, 
Ohio, visited the laboratory April 2. Mrs. Wheeler (nee Iona Fowls) 
was formerly connected with the A. I. Root Co., of Medina, Ohio. Her 
father was one of the pioneer beekeepers in Ohio. Mr. Wheeler produces 
honey of high grade, and was awarded first prize on comb honey at the 
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COTTON INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
B. R. Coad, in Charge 
On April 13 R. C. Gaines, of the field laboratory at Tallulah, 
La., and T. P. Cassidy, in charge of the field laboratory at Tucson, 
Ariz., conferred at Stillwater, Okla., with representatives of the Okla— 
homa Agricultural and Mechanical College, on plans for cooperative work 
on control of the boll weevil in Oklahoma in 1929. It was agreed that 
four phases of the work should be carried on. 1. The Bureau of Ento— 
mology will cooperate with the Oklahoma Experiment Station and Extension 
Service in making control tests at three points in the infested area. 
2. The Department of Entomology of the Experiment Station will conduct a 
series of similar experiments in cooperation with local farmers in many 
different counties. 3. The Extension service will conduct a large nun— 
ber of demonstrations of methods of control in counties where there are 
infestations, using methods of control recommended by the cooperating 
agencies. 4. At weekly intervals during the season the bureau will make 
records of infestations through the infested territory, and the records 
will be considered and analyzed by a central committee at the College. 
Recommendations for control, based on these records, will be made by the 
Extension Service and promptly forwarded through regular channels to the 
localities concerned. 
H. ©. Young, of the field laboratory at Tucson, Ariz., reached 
Tallulah, La., on April 22, for conference with reference to cooperative 
work in Oklahoma. 
On April 20 J. R. Douglass, of the Mexican Bean Beetle Field Lab-— 
oratory, Estancia, N. M., visited the field laboratory at Tallulah, for 
information on dusting machinery. 
