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DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECTS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
Brief mention was made in last month's News Letter of the passage 
of an appropriation, in the First Deficiency Bill, of funds for work on 
the oriental fruit moth. This appropriation, for $100,000, was made as 
a result of efforts on the part of interested fruit growers. Of this 
money $80,000 is to be spent in large-scale experiments to determine 
the effectiveness of bait traps when used over large acreages. These 
experiments are now getting under way at the two points selected, Cor- 
nelia, Ga., and Vincennes, Ind. 
Preliminary to the organization of this work a conference was held 
at Vincennes, Ind., April 4, when plans for the experiments were discuss— 
od. The attendance included S. C. Chandler, of the Illinois State Natural 
History Survey, Prof. J. J. Davis, of Purdue University, J. S. Houser, of 
the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Prof. Leonard Haseman, of the 
University of Missouri, and Prof. W. A. Price, of the University of Ken- 
tucky; also Dr. F. H. Lathrop, Dr. B. A. Porter, R. F. Sazama,) angus 
Yetter, of the Bureau of Entomology, and several local fruit growers. 
Besides temporary field assistants, L. F. Steiner, D.:W. Hamilton, 
and Francis Munger have been appointed for the experimental work at Cor— 
nelia, Ga., and J. F. Cooper for that at Vincennes. W. P. YeUteusee 
general charge of the experiments on control with bait traps, with head— 
quarters for the present at Vincennes. The experiments at Cornelia 
will be under the immediate charge of Mr. Steiner, who is a graduate of 
Ohio State University and holds a master's degree from that institution. 
For the past three years, as an employee of Purdue University, he has 
been in charge of investigations of the codling moth in south-central 
Indiana. Mr. Hamilton is a graduate of the University of Illinois and 
has done advanced work at that institution. Mr. Munger is a graduate 
of the University of Minnesota. Mr. Cooper is a recent graduate of the 
University of South Carolina, and for several years has been on ae 
by the Bureau of Entomology on work with cotton insects. 
In anticipation of funds specifically appropriated for investiga— 
tions of peach insects in eastern Tennessee, which are expected to be— 
come available July 1, the Bureau is establishing a field laboratory 
at Harriman, in that State.- H. G. Butler has been put in charge of it, 
and has heen transferred from the Bureau's laboratory at Wichita, Kans. 
Mr. Butler has been succeeded at Wichita by Edwin W. Howe, a graduate 
of the University of California, who reported for duty April 10. 
In view of the possible early removal of the smaller buildings 
connected with the Bureau of Entomology, and the resultant need of lab— 
oratory space elsewhere for workers who have been sheltered by them, 
the Division of Deciduous-Fruit Insects has leased quarters in Takoma 
Park, Md., at 7710 Blair Road. Accommodations at this address have also 
been provided for the scientific workers of the Division who have been 
quartered at Sligo, Md., and they are now transferring their equipment 
to the new laboratory. The workers who are moving from Washington in-— 
clude Dr. F. L. Campbell, H. H. Shepard, Charles Lukens, Miss Abby Hol-— 
dridge, and Mrs. Bessie Bell. 
