BEN» Pr a 
TRUCK-CROP INSECTS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
Leaving Washington May 8, W. H. White visited the lower section of 
South Carolina, to look over locations there suitable for the establish— 
ment of a field laboratory devoted to work on the sandy—land wireworm. 
He visited the field laboratory at Chadbourn, N. C., and conferred with 
W. A. Thomas and C. F. Stahl on the problems of the strawberry weevil and’ 
the root aphid. He also stopped at Charleston, S. C., to discuss with 
W. J. Reid, jr., the problem of the seed-corn maggot, and returned to 
Washington May 12. 
M. C. Lane, Walla Walla, Wash., visited Bozeman, Mont., May 5, St. 
Paul, Minn., May 7 and 8, and Ames, Iowa, May 9 and 10, to confer with 
entomologists and others concerning certain phases of the work on wire- 
worms. 
C. F. Stahl, Chadbourn, N. C., visited Washington, D. Cole Magai2 
to 16, to confer with Dr. P. W. Mason regarding aphid material which he 
has collected on strawberries during the past season, and returned to 
Chadbourn on May 17. On May 19 he visited Orlando, Fla., to confer with 
W. E. Stone in regard to the work at the field laboratory at Sanford, 
Fla., where Mr. Stahl will take up a new assignment on July l. 
N. F. Howard, Columbus, Ohio, visited Norfolk, Va., May 16 and 17, 
to discuss with L. W. Brannon the work in progress on the Mexican bean 
beetle, and stopped over at Washington en route. 
W. A. Thomas, Chadbourn, N. C., visited Washington May 14, to make 
a survey of the strawberry plantings at Bell, Md., in company with G. M. 
Darrow, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. They went there to determine 
the varying susceptibility of the different varieties of strawberries to 
attack by insects. Mr. Thomas also made a survey for infestations by the 
strawberry weevil on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and in Delaware. 
O. E. Gahm, Arlington, Va., and H. D. Young, of the Bureau of Chem— 
istry and Soils, visited Barberton, Ohio, May 19 and 20, to conduct some 
experimental tests on fumigation in the mushroom plant of Yoder Brothers. 
J. A. Hyslop, Washington, D. C., went to Biloxi, Miss., on May 20,-. 
where, with K. L. Cockerham, he inspected work on wireworms in progress - 
at the field laboratory there. Mr. Hyslop reports injury from wireworms 
in the vicinity of Foley, Ala. 
A. C. Morgan, in charge of the field laboratory at Clarksville, 
Tenn., visited Quincy, Fla., in the week of May 28, to confer with F. S. 
Chamberlin in regard to the season's work at the field laboratory there. 
O. E. Gahm, Arlington, Va., left Washington May $31 for points in 
the West and on the Pacific Coast, to study the occurrence of mushroom 
pests in commercial mushroom houses. 
