
MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOM yLOG 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE!’ °5 
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Number 192 
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COTTON INSECTS 
B. R. Coad, in Charge 
. H. S. Peters, detailed from the Division of Insects Affecting Man 
and Animals, left Washington April 14 for New York, where he took charge 
of the first consignment of Microbracon kirkpatricki, a parasite of the 
pink bollworm collected in Kenya Colony, Africa, and shipped through 
England to New York by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology. Mr. Peters 
carried the material in an iced container to El Paso, Tex., where it 
was delivered on April 17 to F. A. Fenton, in charge of research work 
on the pink,bollworm. A second consignment of the parasites reached 
New York April 21 on the S. S. George Washington. J. L. Webb, of the 
Washington office, took charge of this shipment and arranged with the 
express company to forward it to Dr. Fenton at El Paso, the company 
agreeing to keep the container supplied with ice en route. Dr.-Fenton 
reports that the shipment was received in good condition. 
C. A. Bennett, Mechanical Engineer, of the Division of Agricultural 
Engineering, Bureau of Public Roads, who has heretofore been mentioned 
as cooperating with the field laboratory at Tallulah in cotton-—drying 
investigations, and having patented processes and methods devised there, 
was in Washington, D. C., from March 29 to April 18. Four patent claims, 
relating to his inventions, condensed into three public-service patents, 
have been granted, and a fifth claim appears to be on the way to recog— 
nition. While in Washington Mr. Bennett drafted four other claims for 
his division, and discussed matters pertaining to recent investigations 
in Mississippi. He left Washington April 18, returning to Tallulah by 
way Of Birmingham, Ala., where officials of a firm making cotton gins 
conferred with him relative to the construction of cotton driers for 
some of their patrons. 
Peer sonol), Assistant Director, and E. K. Towe; C. Fs siiites: 
and W. E. Jackson, of the Oklahoma Extension Service, spent several days 
in the latter part of April at Tallulah, conferring with B. R. Coad and 
project leaders of the field station on problems relating to the control 
of cotton insects. 
J. T. Roy has been temporarily appointed Field Assistant, with 
headquarters at Tallulah. 

