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Number 188 December, 1929 

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DECIDUOUS-—FRUIT INSECTS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
Oliver I. Snapp addressed the South Carolina Peach Growers' As- 
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sociation at its annual meeting in Columbia, S. C., on December 4. 
L. C. McAlister, Jr., in charge of blueberry-maggot investiga-— 
tions at Cherryfield, Me., is temporarily in Washington, summarizing his 
field notes, doing library work, etc. He expects to remain in Washington 
for several months, 
b E. J. Newcomer and M. A. Yothers, of the field laboratory at 
Yakima, Wash., attended the fourth annual meeting of the members of the 
Western Cooperative Oil Spray Project, at Spokane, December le and 13. 
The membership of this group comes from the Agricultural Experiment 
Stations of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and California, the 
Canadian Department of Agriculture, and the United States Department of 
Agriculture. Besides reviewing the work of 1929 and making plans for 
193), the project assembled suggestions for the practical use of oil 
Sprays in 193), which will be published through various channels. Mr. 
Newcomer is chairman of the group. 
Contributions from the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory 
On December 2 Dr. F. A. Fenton, in charge of the bureau's field 
laboratory at El Paso, Tex., visited the Japanese—Beetle Laboratory. 
Doctor Fenton was much interested in the laboratory generally, but spent 
considerable time in looking over the equipment used in the laboratories 
devoted to parasites of the Japanese beetle and of the oriental peach 
moth. 
Loren B. Smith, in charge of the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory, 
left for Des Moines, Iowa, on December 27 to attend the meetings of 
the American Association of Economic Entomologists. On December 3), 
before the Section of Plant Quarantine and Inspection, he gave a paper 
on the problems in Japanese—beetle research. 
