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TRUCh CROP INSECTS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
Dr. N. F. Howard, Senior Entomologist in charge of the field 
laboratory at Columbus, Ohio, visited Washington February 3 to Febru- 
ary 11, to consult with Bureau officials. He visited Moorestown, N. Jee 
February 12 to 13, to confer with Messrs. Hadley, King, and others, in 
regard to having a representative of the laboratory in Australia investi- 
gate parasites of the genus Epilachna in that country. 
Dr. Rodney Cecil, Associate Entomologist, who has been engaged 
on the lima-bean pod borer problem at Alhambra, Calif., established 
permanent headquarters at Ventura, effective February 1. Dr. Cecil's 
address is Box A-3, Ventura, Calif. 
Dr. Cecil and R. E. Campbell, Alhambra, Calif., conferred with 
Prof. W. W. Mackie, Associate Agronomist, University of California, 
Berkeley, Calif., on February 6, regarding cooperation with him in his 
work on bean breeding with reference to studies and tests of an indi- 
cated resistance of certain varieties of lima beans to attacks of the 
pod borer. 
While in Berkeley Mr. Campbell met with representatives of the 
State Department of Agriculture and the University of California to 
discuss the vegetable-weevil investigations conducted jointly by the 
three agencies. 
C. E. Smith, Associate Entomologist in charge of the field labora— 
tory at Baton Rouge, La., visited Washington February 6 to 15, to confer 
with Bureau officials. 
G. A. Mail, Collaborator, Bozeman, Mont., visited Walla Walla, 
Wash., February 12 to 14, to discuss the wireworm problem with M. C. 
Lane. 
E. W. Davis, Assistant Entomologist at Salt Lake City, Utah, 
and V. E. Romney, Junior Entomologist, State College, N. Mex., were called 
to Twin Falls, Idaho, for conference with Dr. P. N. Annand and others on 
the sugar—beet leafhopper problen. 
S. E. Crumb, Entomologist in charge of the field laboratory at 
Puyallup, Wash., conferred with Bureau officials in Washington, February 
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