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Contributions from the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory 
On April 9 and 10 Doctor wW. E.. Fleming, of the Japanese-Deetle 
Laboratory, attended the General Meetings and the Insecticide Sympo- 
Sium of the American Chemical Society, at Atlanta, Ga. 
Doctor David Miller, Chief Entomologist of the Cawthron Insti- 
tute, New Zealand, visited the laboratory on April 28 and 29. Doctor 
Miller's chief interest is in biological control and soil insecticides. 
His visit was a most enjoyable event to the workers of the laboratory, 
who gained a number of new ideas from hin. 

TRUCK~CROP INSECTS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
J. R. Douglass, in charge of the field laboratory at Estancia, 
N. M., left Washington April 3 for Norfolk, Va., where he visited L. W. 
Brannon, in charge of the field laboratory there. In company with Dr. 
N. F. Howard, Columbus, Ohio, he visited Galax and other points in south- 
western Virginia on April 9 and 10. He then returned to Columbus and on 
April 14 departed for his official station at Estancia, which he reached 
on April 17. 
J. E. Graf returned to Washington on April 5, after visiting sev-— 
eral of the field laboratories of this division. 
C. F. Stahl, Chadbourn, N. C., visited Hammond, Baton Rouge, and 
other points in the strawberry-growing district of Louisiana, April 17 
to 19, to ascertain whether the strawberry root aphid was a Serious hin- 
drance to the production of strawberries there. 
J. N. Tenhet, of the field laboratory at Chadbourn, N. C., visited 
Washington, D. C., April 28, to confer with Bureau officials regarding 
the new project on the sandy-land wireworm, to be inaugurated at an early 
date. 
Rodney Cecil returned on April 28 to the field laboratory at 
Geneva, N. Y., where he will resume his studies on bean insects. He 
spent last winter at the field laboratory at Columbus, Ohio. 
Field assistants who have recently been appointed are W. W. Baker, 
for service at Puyallup, and R. N. Lux, for service at Walla Walla, both 
in the State of Washington. 
