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COTTON-INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
B. R. Coad, in Charge 
Four commodious new buildings, with all modern conveniences, espe- 
cially constructed by local capital to meet the expanding needs of the 
field laboratory at Tallulah, were completed in March and have been oc— 
cupied. Two of the buildings provide quarters for the chemical and bio-— 
logical laboratories and the field forces; one is used for an automobile 
repair shop and storage room for cars and trucks, and one provides sto— 
rage for insecticides, field equipment and necessary miscellaneous items. 
They are located 2 miles south of Tallulah, on Number 65 National High—- 
way, and occupy one of the highest and most desirable places in the 
Viuinicy, OleiaslLulan. 
Electric lighting of the air field, to be used for night flying to 
collect insects, is nearing completion, 
C. S. Rude was appointed Assistant Entomologist March 1, and has 
been assigned to the pink bollworm field laboratory at El Paso, Tex. 
R. C. Young was appointed machinist March ll. 
On March 1 W. H. Rumff was appointed field assistant at the cooper— 
ative field laboratory at Florence, S. C. 
On March 15 S. L. Calhoun was appointed field assistant in pink 
boll-—worm investigations at El Paso, Tex. 
William Hackett, Forest Ranger at the field laboratory at Tucson, 
Ariz., has resigned, effective February 28. 
T, P. Cassidy, in charge of the field laboratory at Tucson, Ariz., 
arrived at Tallulah on March 30, for a few days conference with B. R. 
Coad. 
TROPICAL, SUBTROPICAL AND ORNAMENTAL PLANT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. (C. Baker, in Charge. 
Dr. Fenner S. Stickney, in charge of the field laboratory at Indio, 
Calif., has come to Washington, D. C., to conduct treatments on date— 
palm offshoots which are being imported by the Bureau of Plant Industry. 
This work is being done under the direction of the Plant Quarantine and 
Control Administration, to which Dr. Stickney has been temporarily as- 
Signed until the conclusion of the treatments. 
