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antine and Control Administration to the field laboratory at Alhambra, 
Calif., where he will assist R. E. Campbell in problems relating to the 
biology and control of truck-crop insects. 
N. F. Howard, Columbus, Ohio, visited Blacksburg, Lynchburg, Dan-— 
ville, Richmond, and other points in Virginia, July 16 to 18, in company 
with Prof. Schoene, of the Experiment Station at Blacksburg, and Mr. Moore, 
County Agent, to determine the intensity of the infestation by the Mexican 
bean beetle, which had been reported to be seriously injuring beans in 
that section. Mr. Howard also visited Washington to arrange for experi-— 
mental work on the Mexican bean beetle, to be conducted at the Arlington 
Farm in Virginia. 
M. C. Lane, Toppenish, Wash., visited Bozeman, Mont., July 18, to 
confer with Dr. J. R. Parker and others, of the Montana Agricultural Ex-— 
periment Station, regarding the control of wireworms. 
O. E. Gahm, of the field laboratory at Columbus, Ohio, arrived in 
Washington July 28, to conduct experiments on the control of the Mexican 
bean beetle. His work will be carried on at the Arlington Farm and other 
points near Washington. 
Ss. P. Harrell has been given a temporary appointment as Field As— 
Sistant at the bean beetle laboratory at Estancia, N. M., to succeed W. 
J. Douglass, who has been probationally appointed Junior Plant Quarantine 
Inspector by the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. 
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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge 
F. W. Boyd has been transferred, effective July 23, 1928, from the 
field laboratory at San Antonio, Tex., to the field laboratory at New Or- 
leans, and will be in charge of the sublaboratory at Beaumont, Tex. With 
this as a center, studies will be made in eastern Texas on the sugar-cane 
moth borer as a pest of corn. The work will be conducted in cooperation 
with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. 
In July several Junior Entomologists were appointed and assigned, 
as here specified, to duty in this Division. Morris Schlosberg has been 
assigned to duty at Toledo, Ohio, August I. Balzer, Ferdinand F. Dicke, 
and Luther G. Jones at Monroe, Mich., Clarence C. Crooks and Thomas 
V. Henneberry at Sandusky, Ohio, William A. Douglas at New Orleans, La., 
Eugene D. Eaton at Carlisle, Pa., Ford H. Harries at Ss.t Lake City, Utah, 
Hosea S. Hollingsworth at Wichita, Kans., and D. D. Questel at Arlington, 
Mass. 
On July 27 Dr. W. J. Phillips, in, charge of the field iaboratory 
at Charlottesville, Va., visited the Washinyton office for consultation. 
