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COTTON INSECTS 
F. C. Bishopp, Acting in Charge 
Dr. A. F. Woods, Director of Scientific Work, S. H. McCrory, 
Chief of the Division of Agricultural Engineering, Bureau of Public 
Roads, and E. W. Sheets, Chief of the Division of Animal Husbandry, 
Bureau of Animal Industry, spent March 26 at the Tallulah, La., field 
laboratory. The various activities of the laboratory were discussed with 
the members of the staff directly in charge of the different lines of 
work. The visitors showed much interest in the work, particularly in 
the investigations of the use of the airplane for applying various in- 
secticides and for studying insect migration. 
Norman Allen, Junior Entomologist, Division of Truck Crop In- 
sects, Bureau of Entomology, Baton Rouge, La., was a visitor at the field 
laboratory at Tallulah, on March 23. Mr. Allen was principally inter- 
ested in flight-screen and airplane collections of the striped cucumber 
beetle. 
D. A. Isler, Agricultural Engineer, Bureau of Public Roads, left 
Tallulah March 13 to lay out experimental plots for plowing and irriga- 
tion in control of the pink bollworm at Presidio, Tex. He returned on 
March 26. 
George N. Fagan, Junior Administrative Assistant, reported for 
duty at the Tallulah field laboratory on March 2, having been transferred 
from the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration, Mediterranean fruit- 
fly laboratory, at Orlando, Fla. 
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F, C. Bishopp returned to Washington from Tallulah on March 4. 
On March 20 T. C. Barber took up his work on the cotton leaf per- 
forator at Calexico, Calif. En route from Brownsville, Tex., he spent 
several days at Tucson, Ariz., completing his report on last year's ex- 
periments in the Imperial Valley and conferring with T. P. Cassidy on 
plans for this season's work. 
TRUCK CROP INSECTS 
W. H. White, Entomologist 
Dr. N. F. Howard, Senior Entomologist, in charge of the field lab- 
oratory at Columbus, Ohio, visited Washington, March 5 to 7, to confer 
with Bureau officials. 
J. E. Dudley, jr., Entomologist, in charge, and T. E. Bronson, 
Junior Entomologist, of the field laboratory at Madison, Wis., attended 
the meetings of the North Central States Entomologists at Urbana, Ill., 
March 4 and 5. 
