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COTTON INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
B. R. Coad, in Charge 
In June B. R. Coad visited the State Experiment Station at College 
Station, Tex., and conferred with Dr. F. L. Thomas relative to plans for 
investigation of the pink bollworm and cotton bollworm. An arrangement 
has now been perfected by which the bollworm investigations in Texas will 
be handled on a cooperative basis similar to that for the work on the pink 
bollworm. Under this system the investigations will be carried on jointly 
by means of funds provided by the State of Texas and the Bureau of Entomol— 
ogy, with Dr. Thomas in direct supervision of the field work. 
In the latter part of June B. R. Coad and Messrs. McGinley, Payne, 
and Long tock two airplanes to Dallas, Tex., at the request of the Division 
of Agricultural Engineering of the Department of Agriculture, to show meth— 
ods of airplane dusting to the agricultural engineers then attending the 
annual meeting of the American Association of Agricultural Engineers. 
Early in June G. C. McGinley was appointed airplane pilot and re— 
ported for duty. 
The following were appointed temporary field assistants, and reported 
for duty in June: At Tallulah, La., J. C. Sherwin, K. H. Smithjgeee 
Williamson, Syrus Conn, D. H. Ratcliff, S. D. Sumerford, L. W. Noble, Josh 
Randolph, H. D. Tate, V. L. Pearson, D. G. Long, L. B. Reed, A. B. Beavers, 
L. D. Christenson, B. ©. Stephenson, and L. H. Subblefield; at Florence, 
os. ©., W. A. Brunson, M. R. Buffkin, W. J. Moore, and E. V. Welsh; Vanden 
Tucson, Ariz., J. A. Downs. 

TROPICAL, SUBTROPICAL, AND ORNAMENTAL PLANT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. C. Baker, in Charge 
Dr. A. C. Baker returned June 24 to his temporary headquarters at 
Orlando, Fla., after spending a week in Washington. While here he con- 
ferred with various persons in the Bureau of Entomology and the Plant Quar— 
antine and Control Administration on the research work on the Mediterranean 
fruit fly which he is now conducting in Florida. 
Since about the middle of May Harold Lewis, of the California Fruit 
rowers' Exchange, has been at the field laboratory at Lindsay, Calif., 
familiarizing himself with the problem of the citrus thrips and assisting 
EH. A. McGregor, in charge, in the work on that.insect. 
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